Comment 6 for bug 258073

Bug has been confirmed with the latest intrepid beta. I was able to boot into the system only after blacklisting rtl8180. If the module is loaded and I try to bring wlan0 up (either by NetworkManager or manually), the whole system freezes.

The problem is not NetworkManager, but the kernel module itself, as after replacing NetworkManager with wicd I got the same problem of rtl8180 freezing the system.

The best option would be to blacklist this kernel module before shipping 8.10 final.