[Ubuntu Chicago] 2Wire connection loss

[smaLLz]

James,
I'm unsure of the answer to your wireless issue, but I do have some input in
regards to shutting off the system safely when it hangs. I am not 100% on
this, but I remember reading somewhere that just pressing the power button
on a linux/unix like system can potentially damage the hard disk drive(s). I
believe someone replied recommending you to switch to the shell
(Ctrl+Alt+F1) "you can actually use F1 through F6  in the previous command"
After switching to the shell,
type at the prompt  "shutdown -hr now " without the quotes

If you cannot get this far, there is the wonderful "Sys Rq" key. This is
sometimes also the "prt sc" or Print Screen key. On some laptop systems this
could potentially be a "function" key as well.

Going on. If you can't get the system to drop to a shell and issue the
shutdown -hr now command, try the following:

Press and Hold (SysRq+Alt+R,E,I,S,U,B) and the system should magically
reboot. You are holding the SysRq+Alt keys, while pressing REISUB, in that
order. I'll leave the reasons for what this key sequence actually does for
everyone who does not know to research.

Anyway, hope this is good for my first post in the mailing group. I look
forward to attending a meeting and maybe creating a South Suburbs Ubuntu
Group for those around the Joliet area. I apologize for any spelling and
grammar errors, as I am not an English major.

Good luck with the 2Wire problem.
Cheers,
Andy**

On Feb 11, 2008 11:46 PM, James White <jwhite1202 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Does anyone know why 2Wire occasionally looses it's connection and then
> just hangs?  Once I finally got my wireless connection going (thx Chicago
> Ubuntu team), I now run into the occasional problem of the wireless network
> becoming lost and there is nothing you can do to get it back.  The password
> screen pops up, but when you add the pwd back, it just hangs.  I cannot even
> shut the computer down to restart.  I have to remove the battery to get the
> thing to finally shutdown.  Yes, I know this is not safe but I would still
> be waiting for the laptop to shut down if I depended upon the laptop to shut
> itself down :-) when it has this issue.  I looked on the Ubuntu forums and
> did not see anything specific.  I'm still learning to use the forums so I
> apologize in advanced if I missed something.
>
>
> Thx,
>
> James
>
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