Ubuntu freezes randomly

[Pat Brown]

Carl Friis-Hansen wrote:
> Chris Rees wrote:
>   
>> Pat Brown wrote:
>>     
>>> I have a problem with Ubuntu freezing for no apparent reason. It's not
>>> like I'm running any RAM intensive programs - this morning I had
>>> Konquerer open, Thunderbird and OpenOffice.
>>>       
> I have upgraded seven computers from 7.10 to 8.04 by reinstalling from 
> 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
>
> Hope this helps and I will make a statement on the bug site ASAP.
>   

I ran this and the freezing problem occurred again shortly after. This 
time all I had open was Thunderbird, Konquerer and Open Office. It froze 
when I opened a web page - not a very interactive one, either, no flash 
or any thing running on it.

I haven't actually configured the wireless card, since nothing I've done 
seems to work, so right now I'm sticking to a wired connection.

Pat Brown
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