Me and a friend at work have the same Packard Bell MZ36 laptops. Same spec and both of ours do the same thing as yours does. Firefox 3 Beta 5 will lock up sometimes. Apt-get and synaptic both freeze the system everything they try to access the web. Both are using wireless networks.
This is definitely a wireless card driver issue, or something related to it because the freeze only happens when it's use. I'd really love to solve the problem but we're not experts either. I'll post here if i find a solution. mub - your not alone :) -- Ubuntu freezes randomly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/224782 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs