[Bug 16247] Re: Dell Inspiron 600m - ndiswrapper hangs on boot if running on battery

[Garoth]

Hello

I am running a Toshiba Satellite laptop with Edgy on it.

I would like to confirm that this bug happens to me with a clean install
of Edgy. A clean install does not come with ndiswrapper, and I do not
use it, although my wireless card does work.

The system hangs at loading network interfaces during boot if it is not
on AC power. A new piece of info that makes this more confuzing is that
if I reboot several times in a row, with AC not plugged in, it does
eventually boot, but this seems to be a slim chance. Furthermore, the
error that the system raises (after a long wait) is the CPU soft lock on
Cpu0 (I don't recall the exact wording, but I hope you know the one,
it's a common error) (I have a Centrino duo in the system).

I am willing to get more info for this bug if someone tells me what to
do, but I do not know enough to do it by myself.

However, unless I am needed, I will enable the BOIS mode that seems to
fix this problem, as suggested here:
http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?p=695&sid=4d3265ea70c1186497b6a1ec026229f8#695

Cheers to all the open source contributors, thanks a lot for making open
source so very cool.

-AT

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Dell Inspiron 600m - ndiswrapper hangs on boot if running on battery
https://launchpad.net/bugs/16247