im not sure if your laptop is new enough but I have an i7 laptop with USB 3.0 and the usb3 controller is what hangs the system up on sleep/hibernate. i get locked out and have to cold boot. Sarah Sharp is a linux developer who has made usb3 driver for linux and that may solve the problem. her article is here:
http://sarah.thesharps.us/2009-06-09-13-30.cherry
people have also has good luck with this script that fixes the problem.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...ls/+bug/562484
again, not sure if you have usb3 but it's something...
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