Comment 11 for bug 90271
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| Nikhil (nikhil-rajan) wrote Re: [Bug 90271] Re: Regression: RealTek 8139 hard-locks system on installation/modprobe (affects Averatec, Philips laptops) | #11 |
You have to install Ubuntu 5.04 and then compile your own kernel with
8139too in PIO mode... after which you can upgrade to the latest version
but have to take care that you boot from your custom kernel failing
which it will not boot.
el3ktro wrote:
> I'm having the same problem on my Averatec 2460 laptop. Adding
> acpi=noirq doesn't help. I'm now running Gentoo with 8139too in PIO
> mode, recompiling the kernel with 8319too in MMIO mode gives me an
> unbootable system. Any changes that this gets fixed? I wasn't able to
> install any of the last 3 Ubuntu releases!
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