Gutsy unstable

[Pastor JW]

On Friday 11 April 2008, Kenneth P. Turvey wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:56:12 -0500, Preston Kutzner wrote:
>
> [Snip]
>
> > Sorry all, my bad with this.
> >
> > Anyhow, some people have mentioned similar issues.
> >
> > One of the solutions was to turn of IPv6 support in Gutsy.
> >
> > From a terminal type: gksudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/aliases Look for the
> > line that reads: "alias net-pf-10 ipv6" Change the "ipv6" portion to
> > "off", save and restart.
> >
> > Also, try commenting out any IPv6 lines in /etc/hosts.
>
> [Snip]
>
> Ok, I tried this on my system yesterday and I just had to reboot.  The
> symptoms were not quite the same as mentioned earlier, but I think it is
> the same problem.  I couldn't kill processes so there were no zombies
> created.  One processes running ipw3945 was eating an entire CPU.  I
> couldn't kill it.  I'm not sure what it does, but it had been churning
> along since the crash and had accumulated 600+ minutes of CPU time.
> Networking was completely toast.  I couldn't get Network Manager to
> reconnect to my wireless network.. or for that matter to even detect it.
> When I shutdown the system it didn't make it all the way down.  Network
> manager was complaining about something in going down.

I read somewhere, ...I have the notes here but not the location, that it was 
better to use iwl3945 rather than the ipw3945 module. It is supposed to be a 
workaround for the bug, and so I changed it.  Haven't noticed drop-outs or 
slowdowns since with my wireless connection.  



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