Apologies for being so long in returning to this subject, as promised on December 15.
If you’ve read my entry Starting Bluetooth Services: Gutsy bootup problem from December 4, you’ll have read that my attempts to blacklist Bluetooth failed.
I’ve had some comments and emails about this, and it seems to be a particular problem [...]

Well I’m delighted to say that Ubunty Gutsy 7.10 is running on my HP Pavillion dv6558ea Intel Core duo.
I make a point about giving the computer its full title, as there are subtle and not so subtle variations between the dv6500 family, it would seem.
There are still a few tweaks to be made but [...]

Installed new kernel last night (from 2.6.22-24-14-generic to Latest Kernel Prepatch: 2.6.24-rc4 ).
Ongoing problems (no wireless, no sound, though usb hdd is loading), but in the meantime, here’s a useful link.
The dmesg command

I ran a Memory Test as per one of Aldeby’s suggestions. What I didn’t realise what that it runs in a loop. I let it run for 22 hours (48 passes) without it showing any faults, so I’m presuming it’s fine.
ubuntu forums on Memtest

Well, blacklisting Bluetooth didn’t work. Bootup still falls down at *Starting Bluetooth services.
Aldeby (see comments in previous post) doubted that Bluetooth was the culprit, and it appears that he’s right.
The good news is that wireless worked out of the box, again as Aldeby predicted, so I’m inclined to listen to him!
The bad [...]