I don't agree that Bug #34902 is a duplicate. It is talking about
locking of the system due to a totally different card and driver. The
card/driver on this bug is an 8139 ethernet card (wired network, not
wireless); the card in question for the other bug is a Ralink RT2500
wireless card.
It is true that the Ralink RT73 wireless card on my Everex StepNote
SA2053 has some issues with Ubuntu, but not the ones described in Bug
#34902.The rausb drivers that came with Feisty and Gutsy did not work,
and even with working drivers, the wireless card did not work with the
Network manager application, but I never saw the laptop hang due to the
wireless issues. Also, commenters on the other bug reported they
couldn't get their machines to work even using the Serial Monkey
drivers, but this laptop's wireless works just fine with the Serial
Monkey drivers, with some scripts and the Serial Monkey wireless manager
application (RutilT) in place of the network manager.
The people who reported #34902 and commented on it were having much more
serious wireless problems than people with a StepNote laptop (and other
similar ones), and not the same problems reported here, from what I can
tell.
--Jennifer
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Regression: RealTek 8139 hard-locks system on installation/modprobe (affects
Averatec, Philips laptops)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/90271
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