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wifi makes my laptop crash

Bug #349915 reported by regre
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Bug Description

hello and thank you for taking the time to help me,

We are a few to have the same problem when we switched from 8.04 to 8.10, we started to have some wifi problem. After a random amount of time, the computer freezes. The mouse, the keyboard, the sound card, videocard, everything is stuck. It only happen when we are connected to the internet via the Wifi. It might be related to the Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG since we all have this card.

for more info on the bug http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=989630

thank you for your help

Renaud

Daniele Napolitano (dnax88)
affects: ubuntu → linux (Ubuntu)
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Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara) wrote :

Hi regre,

Care to test a few things first:

1) try installing linux-backports-modules-intrepid - it contains an updated compat-wireless stack as of master-2009-03-04

2) if that fails, can you confirm the issue remains on the latest pre-release of Jaunty 9.04 - currently Beta -
http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/jaunty/beta . You should be able to test via a LiveCD.

3) In Jaunty, linux-backports-modules-jaunty also provides an updated compat-wireless stack as of master-2009-03-24. It would be good to test that too if items 1 or 2 don't work.

Please let us know your results. Thanks.

Changed in linux (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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regre (hapl-o) wrote :

Thank you for the answer, Leann
I'm going to try your advice as soon as I fix my other problem ( When i reopen my computer today it started to act crazy, my toolbar disapeared an a error windows appear and now when i reboot it says that it is impossible to start the Xserver because of an internal error... i just want to cry....... )

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regre (hapl-o) wrote :

For the moment the option 1 seems to be working.

I installed via synaptic
linux-backports-modules-intrepid 2.6.27.11.14 ( it will ask you to install the 2 other programs)
linux-backports-modules-intrepid-generic 2.6.27.11.14
linux-backports-modules-intrepid-2.6.27.11-generic 2.6.27.11.12

and my computer didn't crashed for 2 hours non-stop while using the wifi. i'll keep you posted if the problem reappear. Thank you VERY much!!!!

( I'll also check with the other if it solve their problem ! )

Thank you very much!!!!!!!

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regre (hapl-o) wrote :

the installation of
linux-backports-modules-intrepid 2.6.27.11.14
linux-backports-modules-intrepid-generic 2.6.27.11.14
linux-backports-modules-intrepid-2.6.27.11-generic 2.6.27.11.12

fixed the problem

Changed in linux (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Fix Released
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