One more addition: I thought during the Dapper testing that this problem was related to my WiFi card, so I was following closely this bug report which was looking similar: https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/linux-restricted-modules-2.6.15/+bug/37773
maybe this could be a hint... -- Major problems on Dell Latitude D600 laptop https://launchpad.net/bugs/50683 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs