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[Ryan Beisner <ryanbeisner@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hardware = Dell Latitude E5430 with BCM Eth & Wireless.

The 13.10 Server installer hangs on the purple text screen.  Switching
to console 2 and inspecting syslog reveals failure to load bcm wireless
firmware.

Disabling Wireless device in BIOS during prior to installation was what
I did.  Blacklisting the brcmsmac should do the trick too.

I believe this model of laptop IS on the Ubuntu certification list, so
this probably merits a little heat.

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Title:
  server install iso and netboot pxe hang in ethdetect

Status in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Hi,

  I am trying to install Ubuntu 13.10  amd64 through my pxe server with
  the regular ubuntu netboot release. While this works on some of my
  machines, I experienced another problem.

  When booting an Acer Aspire One 756 (Broadcom BCM4313 802.11bgn WLAN
  adapter), the installation process hangs in a very early state, right
  after detecting the keyboard type.

  The machine is still running, you can login through a second console.
  The problem is that it hangs within

  udpkg --configure --force-configure ethdetect
  /bin/sh /bin/ethdetect
  /bin/sh /bin/check-missing-firmware p2p1 wlan0
  ip link set p2p1 up

  or similiar with wlan0 instead of p2p1.  The ip link command can't
  even be killed with kill -9

  So it's definitely that ethdetect hangs wich this particular wlan
  chip.

  
  Didn't find a workaround yet.

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