macbook pro freezes on boot (network conf)

[teymour]

I have a feisty installed on my macbook pro. I had problem with the networking configuration on boot : my computer froze while configuring the network. On grub quiet mode, I had the message "BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU".

To solve it, I had modified the following files


/etc/modules

[...]
eth0
/etc/iftab
[...]
eth1 mac <mac address> arp 1
/etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper
[...]
alias eth1 ndiswrapper


If you have the resolvconf package installed, you should remove if you do not want to experience empty resolv.conf file after boot.

[Romu]

Same issue for me. NDISWRAPPER doesn't work with Feisty on the Macbook Pro Core 2 Duo :
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ndiswrapper/+bug/83224

You can try to install Madwifi driver 0.9.30.10, it installs, the Atheros chipset set is well recognized and works...until you reboot...and...your Macbook Pro doesn't want to book anymore.

So welcome on the beautiful world of a buggy Feisty !! No more wireless.

[ronocdh]

Teymour, which chipset are you using? Give us the specific model (I believe Romu is using AR5008). Use lspci (after sudo update-pciids, if necessary) to do get the info.