Look in /boot/grub/menu.lst put it before "ro" in the linux entries.
OR, do it manually from the grub menu the first time to see if it fixes the problem. Apparently the rt2500 driver truly hates whatever the kernel is doing for acpi.
It's not a *good* solution, but it sure seems to fix things for me.
In your boot options, you need to add: acpi=off
Look in /boot/grub/menu.lst put it before "ro" in the linux entries.
OR, do it manually from the grub menu the first time to see if it fixes the problem. Apparently the rt2500 driver truly hates whatever the kernel is doing for acpi.
It's not a *good* solution, but it sure seems to fix things for me.