On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 5:06 PM, Sjoerd Hardeman <[email protected]> wrote: > gn643202 schreef: >> thveillon.debian wrote: >>> Patrick Wiseman wrote: >>>> ... Yesterday, my >>>> system froze twice, i.e. became completely unresponsive, the caps lock >>>> LED flashing, as it does on this machine when it's frozen. (A quick >>>> Google search suggests that's a sign of kernel panic.) The only >>>> remedy is to hold down the power button until it powers down. The >>>> reason I suspect Network-Manager is twofold: (1) the freeze only >>>> happened when I had the machine hard-wired to my network, and (2) >>>> syslog showed lots of wlan0 activity - trying to connect, being denied >>>> a DHCP address - just before the freeze occurs. Has anyone else had a >>>> similar experience? I don't want to file a bug report against >>>> Network-Manager unless I'm pretty sure it's the culprit. >>> >>> it was happening to me with an atheros chip and ath5k module. Removing >>> NetworkManager in favor of WICD solved the issue, so I am pretty sure it >>> was the trouble maker. ... >>> Tom >> >> I have had the same problem. >> Searched Synaptic but could not find the WICD package in Lenny. >> > My laptop was hard freezing sporadically, usually at home with a wired > network. Yet, with the update today (in squeeze) of network-manager, it > crashed every few minutes. Disabling wireless solved that, and is hasn't > appeared again after installing wicd and enabling wireless again. > Searching on packages.debian.org shows that wicd for stable is in > backports: http://packages.debian.org/lenny-backports/wicd > > Sjoerd > > PS. Can somebody file a bug report on network-manager? I have no time > this weekend especially since the reportbug package is currently not > working for me in testing (bug #524297).
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