[clue] Intel wireless 6300 not working in kernels > 2.6.32

[Cliff]

Hello Denver Linux Users,

This is my first post to your mailing list.  I've been using some distro 
of Linux since the beginning of 2007 (Vista was the last straw!)

I know a little about Linux, maybe 2-3 on a 10 scale.  Just enough to 
follow directions written with very small words :). But I have managed 
to fix a few problems over the years with the help of good folks with 
greater experience.

On a short side note, the Installfest page lists the next one for March 
3 "2012".  Is this a typo, or has the site not been updated in a while?

Now for my saga;

I recently bought an Acer Aspire One 722. I then bought an Intel 
Ultimate N 6300 wifi card to add 5GHz capability to it. The card works 
fine on Linux Mint 9, and Ubuntu 10.04.  But later iterations of these 
and other distros always freeze up when booting to the live CD.  Kernel 
2.6.32 works fine.  But I've tried at least a half-dozen distros 
including the aforementioned, Fedora, Suse, Pinguy and Fuduntu with 
almost the same result. Anything with a kernel greater than 2.6.32 is 
kaput.  Things go merrily along until I get a message like this;

[ 15.354652] iwlwifi 0000:07:00.0
Queue 4 Stuck for 4000ms
current SW read_ptr 2 write_ptr3


The part "0000:07:00.0" is always the same.  iwlwifi is also the same, 
with only 2 exceptions where iwlagn took it's place in Mint 10 Gnome and 
fedora 15. Fedora 15 even identifies the card by name on one of the 
start up lines before freezing on "iwlagn 0000:07:0.0".

I found one site where someone had seemed to fix the problem, but this 
person had already booted his system.

  https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1177976#p1177976

Since I couldn't get mine to even boot, I had no idea how to proceed.  I 
have searched frequently over the last several weeks, but haven't found 
a definitive "fix' for what's happening.  My hope was to bring my stuff 
to an installfest and hopefully get an education.

Any comments or suggestions would be appreciated.  The error above was 
hand typed as I had no way to cut and paste.  And there are probably 
many other "unknown, unknowns" that I haven't tried.

Thanks for your help!
Cliff Shelby
Castle Rock, CO