Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problems with a freezing machine: All kernels in 12.04 and 13.04

Following up on this with 13.04. Using the instructions from mindwerks.netto compile the STA driver, does not appear to get my wireless working on > 13.04. I have thus had to resort to using bcmwl-kernel-source. > > Freezes are back when on battery power. I also get the following error > message wh

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problems with a freezing machine: All kernels in 12.04 and 13.04

> > Hi all, > > Good news on this. > > I removed bcmwl-kernel-source, and installed firmware-b43-installer. > However this rendered my wireless useless. > > I then started googling on how i would get my broadcom card working > without bcmwl-kernel-source and came across a post which described build

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problems with a freezing machine: All kernels in 12.04 and 13.04

> 12.04.3 ships with the kernel from 13.04. See > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/LTSEnablementStack for details. If you > want to use kernel from 12.04 because that worked for you (you still get > updates), then install 12.04.1 and update from there. Instructions on > that wiki page. If you have al

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problems with a freezing machine: All kernels in 12.04 and 13.04

On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 02:21:15PM +0200, James Morrissey wrote: > I thus found myself with a free weekend and so decided to downgrade to > 12.04 which had worked for me previously. Frustratingly however, i found > that the problem now manifest there as well (there had been no problem in > 12.10 pr

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problems with a freezing machine: All kernels in 12.04 and 13.04

  On 22 August 2013 15:58, J Fernyhough wrote: On 22 August 2013 14:30, James Morrissey wrote: > If i uninstall bcmwl-kernel-source, which of the following packages > do i need to install in order to get my wireless working: > firmware-b43-

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problems with a freezing machine: All kernels in 12.04 and 13.04

On 22 August 2013 15:58, J Fernyhough wrote: > On 22 August 2013 14:30, James Morrissey > wrote: > > If i uninstall bcmwl-kernel-source, which of the following packages > > do i need to install in order to get my wireless working: > > firmware-b43-installer, firmware-b43-lppy-installer, b43-fwcu

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problems with a freezing machine: All kernels in 12.04 and 13.04

On 22 August 2013 14:30, James Morrissey wrote: > If i uninstall bcmwl-kernel-source, which of the following packages > do i need to install in order to get my wireless working: > firmware-b43-installer, firmware-b43-lppy-installer, b43-fwcutter, and/or > firmware-b43legacy-installer. I ask becaus

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problems with a freezing machine: All kernels in 12.04 and 13.04

On 22 August 2013 14:36, James Morrissey wrote: > I have a windows partition on my HDD, but only really keep it there so that > i can run the BIOS update utility from Lenovo. The partition is only really > big enough to do that - i am not sure i could fit a LibreOffice or even > anti-virus install

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problems with a freezing machine: All kernels in 12.04 and 13.04

On 22 August 2013 15:04, Liam Proven wrote: > > > * does the problem only occur under Linux? > > If you have any other OS on the machine, use that for a while and see > if it suffers the problem as well. Windows is the obvious candidate, > but there are other potential ones as well - Mac OS X, PC

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problems with a freezing machine: All kernels in 12.04 and 13.04

On 22 August 2013 15:00, J Fernyhough wrote: > > On 22/08/13 13:21, James Morrissey wrote: > > > --snip-- > > > > The fact that there was a wireless problem on Broadcom BCM43228 and that > the > > freeze appears to correlate with having the machine on battery power (i > am > > > > This sounds lik

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problems with a freezing machine: All kernels in 12.04 and 13.04

On 22 August 2013 14:46, Martin Dixon wrote: > Hi James. > > For what it is worth I had a similar problem with 12.04 and 12.10 and > found the only solution was to reinstall 12.10 and refrain from doing any > updates. > 13.04 works OK with all updates loaded, but I used both with a Ubuntu One >

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problems with a freezing machine: All kernels in 12.04 and 13.04

On 22 August 2013 13:21, James Morrissey wrote: > I am wondering if someone can help me with a major problem that i have been > having in Ubuntu, pertaining to a notoriously hard to diagnose issue of > random freezing. That's nasty. :¬( Unfortunately, intermittent problems are always very hard

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problems with a freezing machine: All kernels in 12.04 and 13.04

> On 22/08/13 13:21, James Morrissey wrote: > --snip-- > > The fact that there was a wireless problem on Broadcom BCM43228 and that the > freeze appears to correlate with having the machine on battery power (i am > This sounds like a problem with the Broadcom drivers - this was a known problem wit

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problems with a freezing machine: All kernels in 12.04 and 13.04

Hi James. For what it is worth I had a similar problem with 12.04 and 12.10 and found the only solution was to reinstall 12.10 and refrain from doing any updates. 13.04 works OK with all updates loaded, but I used both with a Ubuntu One link as security until I was sure. Regards, Martin Dixon O

[ubuntu-uk] Problems with a freezing machine: All kernels in 12.04 and 13.04

Dear all, I am wondering if someone can help me with a major problem that i have been having in Ubuntu, pertaining to a notoriously hard to diagnose issue of random freezing. The problem started in 13.04, which would freeze randomly, from the day i installed it. I persisted with the issue for a w