I was able to figure this out after installing debian lenny. Can confirm that is a problem with rtl8180 that ships with 2.6.26 onwards and NetworkManager (currently running 0.6.6-2).
Dropping into runlevel 1 and doing /etc/init.d/network-manager start causes the system to halt. If I do rmmod rtl8180 and then start network- manager, then the system runs fine. After modifying /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist and blacklisting rtl8180 and then booting normally works and the wireless card works with ndiswrapper. Will download intrepid nightly to confirm that this is the issue. -- liveCD doesn't boot to gnome https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/258073 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
