cheers everybody.. i have good news... after setting up everything with the new modem, i haven't had a kernel panic the whole day (some serious traffic has been going on like p2p more than 500 kBs, media streaming etc).. i sure hope it's not just luck..
i did 2 things.. 1) changed my wireless router to "802.11b only" instead of "b and g"... i 'm not sure that this is what made it work 'cause i think i had already tried that before.. strange thing though: iwconfig gives me ath0 IEEE 802.11g but in case you cant' do that, 2) the second thing i tried is enabling the ath9k driver module.. apparently in 8.10 it's already in there (at least that's what i think) so just do sudo modprobe ath9k and then lsmod |grep ath and check it's enabled.. notice that you'll have to do that again if you restart, but if it actually works you can just add it as a startup command in system->preferences->sessions i'd love to hear that it worked for you too -- Madwifi (atheros) driver malfunction induces a system freeze https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/276445 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
