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I have been working with this problem as well, although I ended up with a slightly different workaround. I blacklisted ath9k, ath9k_common, and ath9k_hw, and disabled wireless networking.
I tried Ubuntu 12.04 on this computer, and it was working nicely for a while, until I did a dist-upgrade a few days ago and rebooted. It would freeze a few seconds after it got to the UI prompt. It had already some wifi networks stored, that it connected to automatically.
I tried OpenSuse 12 - same thing. It froze during the installation process.
Fedora 17 would boot to the UI in a live CD, but as soon as I selected any one of the wireless networks to connect to, it would freeze.
So this is not an Ubuntu problem, per se, but it affects Ubuntu.
I blacklisted ath9k, ath9k_common, and ath9k_hw and got Fedora 17 working stably. I have the 3.3.4-5.fc17.x86_64 kernel