Public bug reported:
I have a Dell Inspiron 5100 laptop. It has been running Breezy fine
with no issues. I have been trying to get Dapper installed. I boot
from the CD select language and keyboard layout, but when it gets to the
"Detecting network hardware" screen it locks up and won't go any
further. I can't even ALT-CTRL-F2 to get to another console to see
what's going on.
If I disable my Wireless network card, which is a broadcom chipset (Dell
TrueMobile 1400 Dual Band WLAN mini-PCI Card. I have been using
ndiswrapper with the bcmwl5.sys driver from Dell in Breezy), the
installation works fine. In that case, if I re-enable my wireless card
and attempt to boot it locks up at hardware detection during boot and
won't go any further. Disabling again allows a normal boot.
After installing and booting with the card disabled, I did an apt-get
update, apt-get upgrade, re-enabled the card and still had the same
problem.
The live CD boots normally. I don't have wireless available, but I can
at least get to the desktop.
I'm not sure what other information to post, but I'll get whatever info
you need from me.
** Affects: hal (Ubuntu)
Severity: Normal
Priority: (none set)
Status: Unconfirmed
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[bcm43xx] Flight 6 Install Detecting Network Hardware freezes
https://launchpad.net/bugs/39885
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