Op 16-5-2011 20:10, David Conner schreef: > Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make > Ubuntu better. However, this problem was reported against a development > release of Ubuntu. Does the problem occur in the current release > version of Ubuntu? > > > ** Changed in: ubuntu > Status: New => Incomplete > Thanks for asking! I have diligently applied all updates since I installed the development version. Today and yesterday there were no updates, which is very uncommon, but as far as I understand, the installation should be equivalent to a new installation of the current release version.
The problem has persisted all the way. I have tested it every now and then. Within seconds from inserting an ethernet cable the mouse cursor and everything else, keyboard, freezes and the only way to get out of this is to press the on/off button for a long time and then switch the mininotebook back on & restart Ubuntu. Removing the ethernet cable doesn't clear the error condition. If I switch off the wireless network in the applet menu, I can then plug in the ethernet cable and the ethernet connection is made without problems. I can switch back to wireless, too, so long as I remove the cable before enabling the wireless interface again (in the applet menu). What else can I say? If you need any specific info about my machine which was not in the original report, I can provide it. For Ubuntu internal data please give an indication of the appropriate command as I don't know these very well. I do know how to run them in a terminal window as root etc. The notebook is an HP 5101 with a Broadcom wireless card. It is now using the latest Broadcom driver afaik. Before Natty Narwhal under Ubuntu 10.10 I would not get any decent speed out of the wireless card. This was ascribed to the driver. I tried to install the latest driver, which necessitated a new kernel as well. On my other HP notebook (an HP4515s) with Ubuntu 10.10 this went OK, but I seem to remember it didn't work out so well on the mini notebook HP5101. (It is a bit daunting, not having done any such compiling/binding or whatever was necessary in Linux before.) The installation problems on the mini notebook were probably why I decided to install Natty before it was released. Now the wireless speed is OK on both machines, being 117-130 Mb/s on a Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH router with 802.11n enabled instead of just 2 Mb/s before. However, it brought on this switchover problem on the mini notebook. Thanks again! Arjen Raateland Helsinki -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/742376 Title: OS freezes as soon as it recognizes an Ethernet cable being inserted -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
