Impossible to boot on 2.6.24-5

[Milo Casagrande]

Just updated to Hardy alpha, at reboot the system can't boot. It freezes at:

[70.551419] b43legacy-phy0: Broadcom 4301 WLAN found

The laptop is an ASUS L4500R, obviously with Broadcom chipset, bcm43 for wireless and b44 for cabled.

[Milo Casagrande (milo)]

I just reinstalled from scratch and now it works.

[Josip Sokcevic (sokcevic)]

I have same problem, i can't even install. Tried Aplha 5 and now Beta 1 - freezes at:
b43legacy-phy0: Broadcom 4301 WLAN found

Ubuntu 7.10 works fine

[Mickey (roaddogmm)]

I have the same problem with 8.04 beta

If I disable my wireless card through the bios, I am able to start ubuntu. However, I am not able to use my wireless card at all

[Milo Casagrande (milo)]

It's the b43legacy driver. They should have blacklisted it in Hardy, at least it should have been in Alpha5...

Check here: https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/module-init-tools/+bug/190298

[Mickey (roaddogmm)]

Thanks Milo

I blacklisted b43legacy, and was able to boot up with my wireless card enabled in bios

Do you have any recommendations on the best way to get the wireless card working?

[Josip Sokcevic (sokcevic)]

How can I add b43 on blacklist as boot parameter? Tied with bcm43xx.blacklist=yes but same problem.

[Milo Casagrande (milo)]

@Sokac
Actually I think there's no way to disable the b43legacy driver at boot time... I search in all the kernel boot time options but didn't find anything that would work in this case. Personally I had to physically detach the wireless card and then blacklist it.

@Mickey
I tried with the fwcutter package, but still my wireless isn't working... (I'm seriously thinking about buying a new card :) ).

[Mickey (roaddogmm)]

Milo,

I just got lucky and found another mini pci card on craigslist, based on the atheros chipset. It was from an old Toshiba laptop. I loaded it, and it came up automatically and worked without any extra configuration. That was the best 15 bucks I've spent in a long time. It also was an upgrade from wireless B to G, so that was an added bonus.

I wish I had bought a new card 2 or 3 versions ago, it would have saved me a lot of wasted time.

[Josip Sokcevic (sokcevic)]

The WLAN is integrated in motherboard (it's notebook Asus L5800C) - so it is impossible to remove. I'll wait Ubuntu beta 2 or final. Tnx for you option ;)