if my wireless lan works - i will officially switch

[S.Tux]

> There are no less than three workarounds documented in the bug.  The
> preferred one is acpi_irq_isa=7.

Thanks Matt; and hopefully my last dumb question:

how to boot with "acpi_irq_isa=7" option?

Thanks. I really hope I can make my wireless connection work so that I
can permanently use Ubuntu in this Notebook.

str