[Bug 205653] Re: Hardy beta - laptop randomly freezes with caps scroll lock leds blinking

2009-02-02 Thread Chris Coulson
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 194650 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/194650 This is getting out of hand. I thought we established earlier that the crash reported in this bug report was due to a Ralink wireless card (rt61pci driver). Anyone else experiencing a similar symptom who

[Bug 205653] Re: Hardy beta - laptop randomly freezes with caps scroll lock leds blinking

2009-01-14 Thread robsstartrek
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 194650 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/194650 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/309003 this is the main bug report right? yes its a problem for linux wireless stuff effects that and usb hard drive like iomega 1tb drive I think with

[Bug 205653] Re: Hardy beta - laptop randomly freezes with caps scroll lock leds blinking

2009-01-14 Thread robsstartrek
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 309003 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/309003 ** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 194650 computer locks up using rt61pci ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 309003 System freeze with caps lock and scroll lock blinking on

[Bug 205653] Re: Hardy beta - laptop randomly freezes with caps scroll lock leds blinking

2009-01-14 Thread robsstartrek
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 309003 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/309003 ** This bug has been flagged as a security issue -- Hardy beta - laptop randomly freezes with caps scroll lock leds blinking https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/205653 You received this bug notification

[Bug 205653] Re: Hardy beta - laptop randomly freezes with caps scroll lock leds blinking

2009-01-14 Thread robsstartrek
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 309003 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/309003 ** Also affects: linux-meta (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- Hardy beta - laptop randomly freezes with caps scroll lock leds blinking https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/205653 You

[Bug 205653] Re: Hardy beta - laptop randomly freezes with caps scroll lock leds blinking

2008-05-15 Thread Cippa Lippa
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 194650 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/194650 sorry guys but here I just had my first freeze with caps lock and scroll lock blinking and I am using arch linux. it has nothing to do with the old kernel or a ubuntu problem. my laptop is a dell latitute

[Bug 205653] Re: Hardy beta - laptop randomly freezes with caps scroll lock leds blinking

2008-05-10 Thread Chris Coulson
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 194650 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/194650 Could everyone here who is running a Ralink card please install the linux-backports-modules package for their kernel from the repositories, and test with the updated driver. For some reason, Robert Citek

[Bug 205653] Re: Hardy beta - laptop randomly freezes with caps scroll lock leds blinking

2008-05-10 Thread Robert Citek
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 194650 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/194650 @ Chris For some reason, Robert Citek changed the duplicate link on this bug for no apparent reason, and didn't leave any comment at all. In the meantime, I'm restoring the link with the original report

[Bug 205653] Re: Hardy beta - laptop randomly freezes with caps scroll lock leds blinking

2008-05-02 Thread Lupick
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 204996 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/204996 Same issue for me Hardy stable + MSI US54SE usb wireless card Maybe using backport repo something could change?? L. -- Hardy beta - laptop randomly freezes with caps scroll lock leds blinking

[Bug 205653] Re: Hardy beta - laptop randomly freezes with caps scroll lock leds blinking

2008-04-29 Thread tradeking
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 204996 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/204996 I have the SAME problem. My system freezes every half hour or so and every button freezes, even the start button. I have to plug everything out... even the battery to restart. Mozilla freezes as well and

[Bug 205653] Re: Hardy beta - laptop randomly freezes with caps scroll lock leds blinking

2008-04-29 Thread tradeking
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 204996 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/204996 My computer is an hp zd7000 and I use a wireless card to access the internet. -- Hardy beta - laptop randomly freezes with caps scroll lock leds blinking https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/205653 You received

[Bug 205653] Re: Hardy beta - laptop randomly freezes with caps scroll lock leds blinking

2008-04-26 Thread Robert Citek
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 204996 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/204996 ** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 194650 computer locks up using rt61pci ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 204996 Linux kernel 2.6.24-12 lockup -- Hardy beta - laptop randomly

[Bug 205653] Re: Hardy beta - laptop randomly freezes with caps scroll lock leds blinking

2008-04-24 Thread BackwardsDown
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 194650 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/194650 I've got the same issue, ever few minutes it locks up and I cant move my mouse for a few seconds or the screen just totally locks up with the caps- and scroll-lock blinking. I'm running 64 bit hardy on a

[Bug 205653] Re: Hardy beta - laptop randomly freezes with caps scroll lock leds blinking

2008-04-16 Thread Rupert
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 194650 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/194650 I have the same issue (system frozen with capslock and scrolllock flashing). I did some research a month or so ago and found some pointers to GLX so I disabled screensavers and shutdown at night. Last night I

[Bug 205653] Re: Hardy beta - laptop randomly freezes with caps scroll lock leds blinking

2008-04-10 Thread Benoit Malet
Seems that it's a bug that has already been corrected upstream, but the correction won't be available in 2.6.24 ... Maybe that for the release for Hardy it might prove useful to blacklist these modules and to use legacy driver ... I'll try this later this day and report here ... Regards, BenoƮt

[Bug 205653] Re: Hardy beta - laptop randomly freezes with caps scroll lock leds blinking

2008-04-10 Thread Chris Coulson
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 194650 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/194650 Mark - No probs! As you have concluded it is related to your wireless card, and you are using an Intel chipset (please correct me if I'm wrong), it might be worth you opening a new bug report, as your

[Bug 205653] Re: Hardy beta - laptop randomly freezes with caps scroll lock leds blinking

2008-04-10 Thread kastyk
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 194650 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/194650 Hello Chris :) I've seen bug report #194650 before I opened this one. A reason for opening new report was simple: I observed little different symptoms. Most important was: I could (and I still can) work

[Bug 205653] Re: Hardy beta - laptop randomly freezes with caps scroll lock leds blinking

2008-04-09 Thread Benoit Malet
Happens also with my Ralink based WiFi PCI card (see lspci -vv output) Happens really fast when I set transfer rate to 54Mbps (sudo iwconfig wlan0 rate 54M) Happens more often when transferring on a Samba share. Will try to put as many documentation as possible. Do not hesitate to ask for more

[Bug 205653] Re: Hardy beta - laptop randomly freezes with caps scroll lock leds blinking

2008-04-09 Thread Benoit Malet
** Attachment added: Output for lsmod http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13295452/lsmod.txt ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Sourcepackagename: None = linux -- Hardy beta - laptop randomly freezes with caps scroll lock leds blinking https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/205653 You received this bug

[Bug 205653] Re: Hardy beta - laptop randomly freezes with caps scroll lock leds blinking

2008-04-09 Thread Chris Coulson
Guys - this bug report is going to get difficult for people to triage because of the number of people 'confirming' the same symptoms. The symptoms you are all describing could have multiple causes The more people post (and the more hardware permutations are thrown in), the more difficult it is

[Bug 205653] Re: Hardy beta - laptop randomly freezes with caps scroll lock leds blinking

2008-04-09 Thread Mark Mandel
Chris Coulson - Thanks for the feedback. The nice thing is, I can 100% without a doubt say it's the wireless card. The reason being, that at my previous job, I would be plugged into network through a cable, and my wireless would be turned off. In this state, I never had a hard crash for over 6

[Bug 205653] Re: Hardy beta - laptop randomly freezes with caps scroll lock leds blinking

2008-04-07 Thread jaarik
I confirm this bug. Painfully random freezes with: AMD Athlon-M 2600+ ndiswrapper + SMCWUSBT-G2 wireless USB dongle Note: It happens every time (range 10min to 1 day into the session) ONLY when my USB hid mouse is used. When I unplug it, and use Synaptics pad instead, I NEVER experience a

[Bug 205653] Re: Hardy beta - laptop randomly freezes with caps scroll lock leds blinking

2008-04-07 Thread jaarik
forgot. there are NEVER any traces of this lock-up left in ANY of the system logs. search me! according to the system, everything is perfect. a riddle to solve. could they please appoint anyone to investigate the bug? -- Hardy beta - laptop randomly freezes with caps scroll lock leds blinking

[Bug 205653] Re: Hardy beta - laptop randomly freezes with caps scroll lock leds blinking

2008-04-07 Thread Sitsofe Wheeler
If you are receiving issues while you are using any binary only bits (e.g. NVIDIA/ATI binary drivers, ndiswrapper etc) many folks will be extremely reluctant to investigate any issues your system is having (because they could lie in a binary only piece). jaarik: If you are using ndiswrapper I

[Bug 205653] Re: Hardy beta - laptop randomly freezes with caps scroll lock leds blinking

2008-04-07 Thread Skull
Regarding using NVIDIA/ATI binary drivers - I have not enable the Nvidia-hw-graphic-binary (only used the default graphics drivers that comes with 8.04 Beta). Regarding: Could they please appoint anyone to investigate the bug - I do not know how this community works, but is there any official way

[Bug 205653] Re: Hardy beta - laptop randomly freezes with caps scroll lock leds blinking

2008-04-07 Thread kastyk
To Skull _This_ is an official bug report, opened by me. I think it's being watched, but just look how many bug reports are opened each day. Ubuntu needs an army of developers to solve every and each one, so ones are more important, other ones are less. To Sitsofe Wheeler: I am using binary

[Bug 205653] Re: Hardy beta - laptop randomly freezes with caps scroll lock leds blinking

2008-04-07 Thread Mark Mandel
If someone could point our how I could help provide extra logs for this bug, or anything along those lines, I'd be more than happy to provide the extra information. -- Hardy beta - laptop randomly freezes with caps scroll lock leds blinking https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/205653 You received

[Bug 205653] Re: Hardy beta - laptop randomly freezes with caps scroll lock leds blinking

2008-04-05 Thread Skull
New updated kernel did not solve this problem! The [Caps lock] + [Scroll lock] death-blinking-LED with frozen-screen -syndrome remains after updated my Notebook PC with the latest 8.04 Beta kernel 2.6.24-14-generic. There is NO problem at all when running via the build in wired-LAN. But as soon

[Bug 205653] Re: Hardy beta - laptop randomly freezes with caps scroll lock leds blinking

2008-04-05 Thread kastyk
I confirm: latest update (as of 5 march 2008) did not solve the problem. @ quadomatic: Good to hear that there's a way to solve this problem. It's gonna be probably only one way, if maintainers won't fix that until stable release. @Skull: You should be able to reboot by pressing Power Button

[Bug 205653] Re: Hardy beta - laptop randomly freezes with caps scroll lock leds blinking

2008-04-05 Thread quadomatic
Oh crap, I got a hard lock overnight :( New theory: I was running bittorrent, so I would say its caused by heavy network usage while your computer is idle...at least that's how it is now, since I had been running bittorrent heavily all day yesterday, while I was at my computer, and I was fine.

[Bug 205653] Re: Hardy beta - laptop randomly freezes with caps scroll lock leds blinking

2008-04-04 Thread quadomatic
I'm not sure if its because of the kernel update or because I updated my wireless driver from the git repositories, but it certainly seems like my hard lockups are gone. -- Hardy beta - laptop randomly freezes with caps scroll lock leds blinking https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/205653 You

[Bug 205653] Re: Hardy beta - laptop randomly freezes with caps scroll lock leds blinking

2008-04-04 Thread quadomatic
I updated the driver (I think). I'm downloading stuff on BitTorrent and I've yet to crash. -- Hardy beta - laptop randomly freezes with caps scroll lock leds blinking https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/205653 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 205653] Re: Hardy beta - laptop randomly freezes with caps scroll lock leds blinking

2008-04-03 Thread quadomatic
Alright, I managed to get this buggy internet connection back after that fiasco with ndiswrapper. I'm going to give the updated version of this driver a shot. Anyone else try? -- Hardy beta - laptop randomly freezes with caps scroll lock leds blinking https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/205653

[Bug 205653] Re: Hardy beta - laptop randomly freezes with caps scroll lock leds blinking

2008-04-03 Thread quadomatic
Hopefully it doesn't crash while I'm trying to get connected to the git repository... -- Hardy beta - laptop randomly freezes with caps scroll lock leds blinking https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/205653 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 205653] Re: Hardy beta - laptop randomly freezes with caps scroll lock leds blinking

2008-04-03 Thread quadomatic
I think this driver isn't bad because of straight up high network usage...I think its related to the amount of incoming and outgoing connections that are going on at once. I've only had it crash while using Bittorrent. This git repository is using 300kbs of bandwidth (maxed out) and I've had no

[Bug 205653] Re: Hardy beta - laptop randomly freezes with caps scroll lock leds blinking

2008-04-03 Thread quadomatic
I'm confused on the branch part here: http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php?title=Rt2x00_GIT_instructions What branch should I put in to get the updated rt61 driver? -- Hardy beta - laptop randomly freezes with caps scroll lock leds blinking https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/205653 You

[Bug 205653] Re: Hardy beta - laptop randomly freezes with caps scroll lock leds blinking

2008-04-02 Thread kastyk
Hi, that's me again :) Couple of thoutghts about increased network activity: freezes occur _always_ during increased network activity. Examples: using of ktorrent, downloading large files or updating system (either with synaptic or aptitude). Network is manually configured by editing

[Bug 205653] Re: Hardy beta - laptop randomly freezes with caps scroll lock leds blinking

2008-04-02 Thread kastyk
A little update: a crush has happened just by clicking a link in firefox browser. Bad luck I quess ;/ -- Hardy beta - laptop randomly freezes with caps scroll lock leds blinking https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/205653 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs,

[Bug 205653] Re: Hardy beta - laptop randomly freezes with caps scroll lock leds blinking

2008-03-31 Thread Dylan McCall
Same issue here, entirely different sounding hardware. Running NetworkManager. Your symptoms are identical to mine. I have not found any pattern here, although increased network usage sounds like a good guess. Running a system monitor applet on my panel set to measure system load average, and have

[Bug 205653] Re: Hardy beta - laptop randomly freezes with caps scroll lock leds blinking

2008-03-30 Thread quadomatic
@Barrakketh Has anyone tried updating? I've never liked NetworkManager...it caused me issues in Gutsy as well. -- Hardy beta - laptop randomly freezes with caps scroll lock leds blinking https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/205653 You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 205653] Re: Hardy beta - laptop randomly freezes with caps scroll lock leds blinking

2008-03-30 Thread quadomatic
@Barrakketh What rt2x00 driver is installed in Hardy? The only one I know of is from SerialMonkey and for RT61 its at v1.1.0-b2. http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php?title=Downloads -- Hardy beta - laptop randomly freezes with caps scroll lock leds blinking

[Bug 205653] Re: Hardy beta - laptop randomly freezes with caps scroll lock leds blinking

2008-03-30 Thread quadomatic
I wouldn't mind trying ndiswrapper. It worked with Gutsy. -- Hardy beta - laptop randomly freezes with caps scroll lock leds blinking https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/205653 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --

[Bug 205653] Re: Hardy beta - laptop randomly freezes with caps scroll lock leds blinking

2008-03-30 Thread Sitsofe Wheeler
I assume everyone here is using the NVIDIA binary driver. Do these random lockups also happen when you use the (no 3D) nv driver? -- Hardy beta - laptop randomly freezes with caps scroll lock leds blinking https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/205653 You received this bug notification because you are

[Bug 205653] Re: Hardy beta - laptop randomly freezes with caps scroll lock leds blinking

2008-03-30 Thread quadomatic
@Sitsofe Wheeler I'm using ATI fglrx (wow I'm out of place...), so I'm not of the belief that Nvidia drivers are causing this problem. -- Hardy beta - laptop randomly freezes with caps scroll lock leds blinking https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/205653 You received this bug notification because

[Bug 205653] Re: Hardy beta - laptop randomly freezes with caps scroll lock leds blinking

2008-03-30 Thread Barrakketh
@quadomatic The v1.1.10-b2 drivers are the legacy rt61 drivers that are based off of what Ralink provides. They don't support wpa_supplicant, so there is no way that I will be using them. The rt2x00 drivers (that includes the rt61pci driver that we're having a problem with) is part of the

[Bug 205653] Re: Hardy beta - laptop randomly freezes with caps scroll lock leds blinking

2008-03-30 Thread quadomatic
Alright, I'll try updating with these and let you all know how it goes. -- Hardy beta - laptop randomly freezes with caps scroll lock leds blinking https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/205653 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 205653] Re: Hardy beta - laptop randomly freezes with caps scroll lock leds blinking

2008-03-30 Thread quadomatic
Apparently the command: cg clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ivd/rt2x00.git/ doesn't work. It says that there are no files to search. -- Hardy beta - laptop randomly freezes with caps scroll lock leds blinking https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/205653 You received this bug

[Bug 205653] Re: Hardy beta - laptop randomly freezes with caps scroll lock leds blinking

2008-03-30 Thread quadomatic
I'm going to give ndiswrapper a shot -- Hardy beta - laptop randomly freezes with caps scroll lock leds blinking https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/205653 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 205653] Re: Hardy beta - laptop randomly freezes with caps scroll lock leds blinking

2008-03-30 Thread Barrakketh
It didn't work because cogito isn't installed. The functionality is also available in git, so: git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ivd/rt2x00.git/ would have worked. -- Hardy beta - laptop randomly freezes with caps scroll lock leds blinking

[Bug 205653] Re: Hardy beta - laptop randomly freezes with caps scroll lock leds blinking

2008-03-30 Thread quadomatic
I wish I had known that. I tried installing the rt61 driver via ndiswrapper following this guide: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=564419 And now I can't connect to my router! I'm not sure how to remove ndiswrapper and put back the old driver either. I tried removing the drivers I had

[Bug 205653] Re: Hardy beta - laptop randomly freezes with caps scroll lock leds blinking

2008-03-29 Thread Skull
I'm having this same problem: Ubuntu 8.04 Beta (2.6.24-12-generic) using both Gnome and KDE4 I using a D-Link Pc-card (DWL-G630)... for me the problem does not depend on if i using an open access point (like www.fon.com) without any decryption or if I using WPA or WEP. SYMPTOMS: Random hanging

[Bug 205653] Re: Hardy beta - laptop randomly freezes with caps scroll lock leds blinking

2008-03-29 Thread quadomatic
It definitely appears to be caused by high network activity. Its only happened to my while using Bittorrent. -- Hardy beta - laptop randomly freezes with caps scroll lock leds blinking https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/205653 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 205653] Re: Hardy beta - laptop randomly freezes with caps scroll lock leds blinking

2008-03-29 Thread Mark Mandel
@quadomatic You see that's funny, because I don't generally get it during high network traffic, I get it more when things are idle, and then I go to do something over the network. I'm tempted to think it's NetworkManager, as this is happening across cards. If I start getting the crashes

[Bug 205653] Re: Hardy beta - laptop randomly freezes with caps scroll lock leds blinking

2008-03-29 Thread quadomatic
It definetly appears to be caused by high network activity. Its only happened to my while using Bittorrent. -- Hardy beta - laptop randomly freezes with caps scroll lock leds blinking https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/205653 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 205653] Re: Hardy beta - laptop randomly freezes with caps scroll lock leds blinking

2008-03-29 Thread Barrakketh
@Mark I'm not using NetworkManager and have that problem. My wireless adapter is configured through the interfaces file. It might be a bug that is present in the driver that may or may not be fixed in the kernel that is shipped with Hardy. The driver developers mention on the project's main

[Bug 205653] Re: Hardy beta - laptop randomly freezes with caps scroll lock leds blinking

2008-03-28 Thread quadomatic
I'm having this same problem, and I also have a Ralink card. Its an RT61 card...I think this may be related to our network cards... -- Hardy beta - laptop randomly freezes with caps scroll lock leds blinking https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/205653 You received this bug notification because you

[Bug 205653] Re: Hardy beta - laptop randomly freezes with caps scroll lock leds blinking

2008-03-28 Thread Nick Russell
Fixed for me by removing my rt61 wifi card... -- Hardy beta - laptop randomly freezes with caps scroll lock leds blinking https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/205653 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing

[Bug 205653] Re: Hardy beta - laptop randomly freezes with caps scroll lock leds blinking

2008-03-27 Thread Barrakketh
This has been happening to me as well. The card is detected as: Network controller: RaLink RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI Subsystem: Linksys WMP54G ver 4.1 The driver I'm using is rt61pci (I would usually use Ralink's driver, but it is broken by kernel shipped with Hardy). -- Hardy beta - laptop

[Bug 205653] Re: Hardy beta - laptop randomly freezes with caps scroll lock leds blinking

2008-03-26 Thread Nick Russell
I have this and have a ralink card... -- Hardy beta - laptop randomly freezes with caps scroll lock leds blinking https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/205653 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 205653] Re: Hardy beta - laptop randomly freezes with caps scroll lock leds blinking

2008-03-25 Thread Mark Mandel
I also have exactly the same issue! I outlined the issue I had here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=4584283#post4584283 And also found people with similar issues here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=702557 I have a Dell XPS M1710 To copy and paste details from my post: 1)

[Bug 205653] Re: Hardy beta - laptop randomly freezes with caps scroll lock leds blinking

2008-03-25 Thread Mark Mandel
Just had another crash, I'm attaching pretty much everything I can think of: Steps: 1) Crash happened, blinking caps and scrollock 2) Shut down Ubuntu via holding down the power off button 3) Rebooted 4) Copied dmesg, dmesg.0, kern.log, kern.log.0, syslog, and syslog.0 to a separate folder for

[Bug 205653] Re: Hardy beta - laptop randomly freezes with caps scroll lock leds blinking

2008-03-25 Thread David Burke
This happens to me as well. I am using Ubuntu Hardy Heron. I am rather certain it only happens with my wifi card in. The card is: Belkin F5D9010 Ubuntu detects the card as: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401 100Base-T RaLink RT2600 802.11 MIMO I believe I'm using this driver: rt61pci -- Hardy