In related news... the hostap upstream driver maintainers seem to have
corrected the initialization issue for PCI devices in Linux 2.6.35 tree.
Recent Ubuntu Maverick kernel updates contain this fix and my PCI prism
based card is now working properly on Maverick.
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'hostap-utils' causes soft
It's because if you don't load orinoco_pci the hostap_pci wireless
driver gets loaded instead. Both drivers support the card and the kernel
doesn't know which one to load but orinoco_pci usually gets loaded for
some reason. The hostap_pci module has been broken for a long time but
the Ubuntu team
I can confirm this bug using the final release of Lucid Lynx (10.04)
fully up to date as of today, June 11th. It can easily be reproduced.
I'll add more information when I find exactly what's wrong.
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'hostap-utils' causes soft lockup when booting lucid
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/573472
Ok, back with more info.
I was unable to get past the soft lockup in any fashion, except booting
from a LiveCD. Then, I did the following:
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$ sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/hostap-utils.conf
Comment out the following line:
# blacklist orinoco_pci
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After doing this, I was able to boot
