I don't know if it's related, but when my sister's Airport Express card failed 
on her iBook, MacOS X crashed regularly.

I've never had a wireless driver crash a Linux machine so I'm tempted to say it 
may be a hardware problem.

J-F

On 2011-07-21, at 14:00, John C Nash wrote:

> I'm at a scientific workshop in Santa Barbara.
> 
> One of the scientists had to get his machine replaced a couple of weeks ago. 
> Quad
> processor Dell Latitude E6410 running Ubuntu 11.04.
> 
> While at the hotel, he could run some fairly fancy statistical models that 
> compile C++
> (the tool is called AD Model Builder). But at the scientific institution 
> (NCEAS), things
> crashed. He spent a lot of time trying to fix things until I suggested 
> turning off
> wireless (not just disconnect).
> 
> Has anyone seen any such strange happening.\? We suspect possible h/w issue 
> or maybe a
> driver bug.
> 
> Cheers, JN
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