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  1. Bug #950295
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Comment 2 for bug 950295

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Ben Prescott (ben.prescott) wrote : Re: acer laptop hangs during boot process; 12.04

Single user (S appended to kernel boot args)

* starting configure network device security
* starting mount network filesystems
* starting failsafe boot delay
* starting network connection manager
* stopping mount network filesystems
* starting bridge socket events into upstart
* starting bluetooth daemon
* starting configure network device
* starting configure network device security
* starting mount network filesystems
* stopping mount network filesystems
* stopping failsafe boot delay
* starting system V initialisation compatibility
* starting set sysctls from /etc/sysctl.conf
* stopping set sysctls from /etc/sysctl.conf
* starting configure network device
* starting configure network device security
* starting configure network device
[ xx.xxxx] b43-phy0 ERROR: firmware file "b43/ucode5.fw" not found
[ xx.xxxx] b43-phy0 ERROR: firmware file "b43-open/ucode5.fw" not found
[ xx.xxxx] b43-phy0 ERROR: You must go to http://wireless.kernel.org [snip] read all the instructions on this website.

throughout the boot process, i was toggling the numlock key
this responded right up to this point; it is now non-responsive.