Ubuntu freezes randomly

[Scott Schulz]

Carl Friis-Hansen wrote:
> scratch. Two of these computer froze as described in this post. In both 
> cases it was related to the use of natively supported wireless cards.
> In my case it looks like it is related to bug #200142. I found that the 
> following work-around resolved the problem:
> sudo apt-get install linux-backports-modules-2.6.24-16-generic
> 

I am not using wireless , but I may install it again and see if loading
those modules makes any difference.  Hopefully it will help the other chap.

Thanks,

SS