Compaq Presario F500

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To get it to boot I had to add 'pci=noacpi' and 'irqpoll'

title           Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.20-16-generic
root            (hd0,2)
kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-16-generic irqpoll pci=noacpi root=UUID=c4c
7d048-6bd8-4431-9a44-43c66bb8335d ro quiet splash
initrd          /boot/initrd.img-2.6.20-16-generic
quiet
savedefault

view of the PCI bus

a@b:~$ lspci
00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 0 (rev a2)
00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 1 (rev a2)
00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 5 (rev a2)
00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 4 (rev a2)
00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:00.6 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 3 (rev a2)
00:00.7 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 2 (rev a2)
00:02.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:03.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:05.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a2)
00:09.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:0a.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 LPC Bridge (rev a3)
00:0a.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP51 SMBus (rev a3)
00:0a.3 Co-processor: nVidia Corporation MCP51 PMU (rev a3)
00:0b.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller (rev a3)
00:0b.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller (rev a3)
00:0d.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 IDE (rev f1)
00:0e.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Serial ATA Controller (rev f1)
00:10.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 PCI Bridge (rev a2)
00:10.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP51 High Definition Audio (rev a2)
00:14.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Ethernet Controller (rev a3)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini-PCI Card (rev 02)

Wireless Card

03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini-PCI Card (rev 02)

[12048.940000] ndiswrapper: request for IRQ 0 failed
[12048.940000] ndiswrapper (miniport_init:275): couldn't initialize device: C000009A
[12048.940000] ndiswrapper (pnp_start_device:426): Windows driver couldn't initialize the device (C0000001)
[12048.944000] unregister_netdevice: device eth%d/ddaaf000 never was registered
[12048.944000] ndiswrapper (miniport_halt:339): device ddaaf400 is not initialized - not halting
[12048.944000] Trying to free already-free IRQ 0
[12048.944000] ndiswrapper: device eth%d removed
[12048.944000] ndiswrapper: probe of 0000:03:00.0 failed with error -22

So there is some kinda prooblem with the irq and the wireless card.  The above example is the NDIS driver, but I had  a simular problem with the linux bcm43xx driver ?

Web Page for linux Driver writers

http://bcm43xx.berlios.de/?go=devices

Web page for info about getting the drivers working with Ubunutu

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx/Feisty_No-Fluff#head-74072bb5f4d3b4b7b8c8588a990a145674d06e31