Ubuntu
linux-restricted-modules package

  1. Bug #287244
  2. Comment #41

Comment 41 for bug 287244

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Bogs (bogdan-is-me) wrote :

 After I read Alex's comment, I had an idea...I knew how to blacklist modules once Ubuntu was installed, but didn't know how to blacklist them while booting from LiveCD [I still don't know if you can]. So I did the following:

1. Installed Intrepid x64 from the Alternate Cd. Things don't look that pretty as they do with LiveCD, but installation went smooth. Trying to boot into Ubuntu now, I end up with the same error message at ath_pci 0.9.4 and then the stack trace Teej first posted.

2. I booted Ubuntu 8.04 32bit LiveCD [as described above], then went to the drive I installed Intrepid to, navigated to /etc/modprobe.d/ and then added the following lines to the file 'blacklist':
         blacklist ath_pci
         blacklist ath5k
         blacklist ath_hal
[I think you only need to blacklist ath_pci, but at this time I was too excited to see if this works, so I put all 3 in]

3. Intrepid 64bit now booted successfully [yee!]. Then I installed the madwifi 0.10.5.6 driver [I got wireless working] and removed the added lines from /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist. Next time I booted the system, everything went smooth and wireless was working!

The NVIDA driver is still not working properly, but this time the sound works flawlessly out-of-the-box!
I hope this works for you too and I'd like to thank everyone for coming up with ideas and support! Hopefully by the time the next version of Ubuntu is released, the buggy ath_pci 0.9.4 is gone and ath_pci 0.10.5 is included by default.