Comment 72 for bug 192720

We have the same problem with Hardy on a laptop- however this laptop was upgraded to Hardy and is currently able to boot when selecting an older kernel (2.6.22-14) from the grub menu.

However despite all updates being applied, selecting the newest kernel (2.6.24-18) still presents the problem. We wish to get this laptop running properly on Hardy as a key step in migrating a set of laptops to ubuntu.
Is there as step missing? What is the "b43legacy firmware" step? Beyond simply having the latest updates from the standard repositories, what else is required?

Any assistance greatly appreciated