** Description changed: Re-opening this bug. Original bug was filed against Ubuntu 8.10, but is still present in Natty. - Original Bug: #368679. + Original Bug: bug #368679. Description: On computers with some rtl818x chip based wifi cards, when module rtl8180 is modprobed this causes a complete freeze of the system. This issue is severe for two reasons: * computers with such wifi cards aren't able to connect to their network via wifi through a native linux driver; * because rtl8180 is modprobed at startup, when a new user tries Ubuntu on such computer, the liveCD will show a black screen without any error message, and then the user will blame Ubuntu. Affected Ubuntu releases: Intrepid, Jaunty, Karmic, Natty Affected wifi cards (examples): * MSI PC54G3 III (chipset RTL8185L) * Zyxel G-302 V3 Workarounds: * ndiswrapper: - * works on Intrepid and Natty but not on Jaunty + * works on Intrepid and Natty but not on Jaunty * manual install of Realtek's supported driver: - * status unknown + * status unknown
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