gn643202 wrote: > thveillon.debian wrote: >> Patrick Wiseman wrote: >>> ... Yesterday, my >>> system froze twice, i.e. became completely unresponsive, the caps lock >>> LED flashing, as it does on this machine when it's frozen. (A quick >>> Google search suggests that's a sign of kernel panic.) The only >>> remedy is to hold down the power button until it powers down. The >>> reason I suspect Network-Manager is twofold: (1) the freeze only >>> happened when I had the machine hard-wired to my network, and (2) >>> syslog showed lots of wlan0 activity - trying to connect, being denied >>> a DHCP address - just before the freeze occurs. Has anyone else had a >>> similar experience? I don't want to file a bug report against >>> Network-Manager unless I'm pretty sure it's the culprit. >> >> it was happening to me with an atheros chip and ath5k module. Removing >> NetworkManager in favor of WICD solved the issue, so I am pretty sure it >> was the trouble maker. ... >> Tom > > I have had the same problem. > Searched Synaptic but could not find the WICD package in Lenny. >
I used to grab it from the upstream website while I was on Lenny: http://wicd.sourceforge.net/ never had any problem as long as I put NetworkManager out of the way properly. It's a pity it's not in stable. Alternatively you may pick it from testing or sid, it's really light on dependencies. Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
