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Comment 3 for bug 616097

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floid (jkanowitz) wrote : Re: Dell D600 - 10.04, 10.10 boot hang (livecd)

I'm chagrined to report that this continued to be a problem with 11.04 Alpha 3, but removing the third-party-surplus-sourced "Arima"-branded RTL8185L wireless card allows the installer to boot flawlessly.

Obviously this is suboptimal for those who manage to have that hardware present and don't want to rip it out to install. Unfortunately without more verbose output even a text boot is not particularly helpful for debugging just *what* is going haywire and freezing the machine [apparently around the time it goes to configure that interface].

I have two of the apparently-troublesome cards in two D600s, and the freeze with the hardware installed reproduces in both of them across a couple BIOS versions. That's all I've got so far.

Other OSes [DragonFly BSD, FreeDOS ...] are not as intrinsically bothered by the RTL8185L card being present.