Comment 26 for bug 225749

I also am experiencing the same problem with my Toshiba A305 S6825 laptop. When the on-board LAN is enabled, the system fails to launch into the desktop, but drops to the BusyBox (initramfs) command line prompt.

Once disabling the on-board NIC, I was able to boot up the LiveCD and install Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron. Due to no external network connectivity, I was able to install all the applications (via an APTonCD) that was created from my main desktop computer.

Currently uname -a for my laptop is as follows:

Linux ubuntu-mobile 2.6.24-16-generic #1 SMP Thu Apr 10 13:23:42 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

I would be interested in testing the kernel patches, but I not sure how to go about it. Is there an info link
available explaining the procedures to take to accomplish this.

I pretty much have my laptop the way I want it; I just need a network connection now, and I currently do not have a wireless router, so I'm stuck with the wired NIC at the moment.

I've also posted topics related to this issue at the Ubuntu forum - username keinea:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=5000154&posted=1#post5000154

Any assistance with be greatly appreciated.

Sincerely,
Keith Neal
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