Comment 0 for bug 368679

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.

Although there are already some similar bug reports, they are all too specific to another hardware so the aim of this report is to centralize any information about actual system freezes caused by rtl8180 modprobes.

Affected Ubuntu releases: Intrepid, Jaunty

Affected wifi cards :
* MSI PC54G3 III

Workarounds:
* on Intrepid, use ndiswrapper;
* on Jaunty, ndiswrapper doesn't work anymore with such chip so there is no workaround to make wifi work.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
LsUsb:
 Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
 Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
 Bus 002 Device 002: ID 0ac8:303b Z-Star Microelectronics Corp. ZC0303 WebCam
 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: linux-image-2.6.27-14-generic 2.6.27-14.33
ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=94814e6a-5868-4218-85ea-ff6550520509 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.27-14.33-generic
SourcePackage: linux
UnreportableReason: Ceci n'est pas un authentique paquet Ubuntu