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.
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[intrepid] Compaq Presario CQ50 cannot install/boot
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