Comment 5 for bug 160718

Leann,

I-m glad to have read your post (here and in other threads). I've been trying to boot without the noapic option for the past 9 months, and was convinced that it had something to do with the kernel version 2.6.22 . This is my first post here, I'm no expert but I'll try to be concise.

I've been partially successful in booting without the noapic option using the newer kernel 2.6.24

My system is a rare HP dv9343eu (Basically an AMD Turion X2 Broadcomm 4312 wireless card (as detected by linux))

While on Feisty or Gutsy (using 2.6.22) I had to specify noapic noirqdebug in order to get a somewhat stable system. That is the combination that best worked for me, because it booted and gave me USB support [although I don't really know whether it was USB 2.0]

Anyhow, I followed your tip and adventured myself into upgrading the kernel manually to linux-image-2.6.24-3-generic (instead of linux-image-2.6.24-1-generic you suggested). At fisrt that made no difference for me, so I decided to make sure and proceeded to install Hardy through a " update-manager -d". I must point out that before proceeding I had uninstalled bcm43xx-fwcutter and the bcm43xx firmware from the restricted firmware manager.

When I rebooted I was glad to see that even though it took considerably a longer time (precisely there was a very long idle time when loading Hardware drivers) it managed to boot up fine!.

I got a message telling me that my wlan card (detected this time as a Bcm4311) was not properly configured and that I needed to install the v.4 firmware for the b43 cards. So I went ahead and did that. First using the Restricted Manager (which installed a non-working bcm43xx-fwcutter) and then manually installing the b43-fwcutter which correctly enabled my wlan and even allowed me join a wireless network without needing ndiswrapper, wcid, etc...

Problem is that when I rebooted the comp, it once again refused to boot properly.

In Conclusion:

I am finally able to boot withouth noapic using 2.6.24 if I don't have any firmware installed for my wireless card. Other things such as suspend/resume/etc still don't work. I still have to try USB, and CPU Freq seems fine....

Please let me know how I could provide you guys with more ideal information. I so want this to work that I am keen on trying whatever it takes to fix it..

Regards,

alej