11.10 Live CD freezes on start up without Ethernet cable plugged in

Had the same issue with 11.04. Ended up completely disabling the card on startup in order to get my notebook to actually run.

Here are the details from 11.04. Can someone please advise if I can update to 11.10 (I want to do a fresh install) and have my Ethernet card work?

id:
pci:1
description: PCI bridge
product: ATI Technologies Inc
vendor: ATI Technologies Inc
physical id:
15
bus info:
pci@0000:00:15.0
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pci pm pciexpress msi ht normal_decode bus_master cap_list
configuration:
driver = pcieport
resources:
irq : 16
ioport : 3000(size=4096)
memory : f0200000-f02fffff
ioport : f0000000(size=1048576)

id:
network
description: Wireless interface
product: RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id:
0
bus info:
pci@0000:02:00.0
logical name:
wlan0
version: 01
serial: 68:a3:c4:c3:00:bc
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration:
broadcast = yes
driver = rtl8192ce
driverversion = 2.6.38-11-generic
firmware = N/A
ip = 192.168.5.103
latency = 0
link = yes
multicast = yes
wireless = IEEE 802.11bgn
resources:
irq : 16
ioport : 3000(size=256)
memory : f0200000-f0203fff

id:
pci:2
description: PCI bridge
product: ATI Technologies Inc
vendor: ATI Technologies Inc
physical id:
15.1
bus info:
pci@0000:00:15.1
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pci pm pciexpress msi ht normal_decode bus_master cap_list
configuration:
driver = pcieport
resources:
irq : 16
ioport : 2000(size=4096)
memory : f0100000-f01fffff

id:
network
description: Ethernet controller
product: AR8152 v2.0 Fast Ethernet
vendor: Atheros Communications
physical id:
0
bus info:
pci@0000:06:00.0
version: c1
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vpd bus_master cap_list
configuration:
latency = 0
resources:
memory : f0100000-f013ffff
ioport : 2000(size=128)