Comment 79 for bug 276990

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takeda64 (takeda64) wrote :

Ehhh... sorry guys, but either the bug that I reported isn't duplicate of my bug, or the driver still didn't fix the issue.

After installing those drivers, and the intensity of crashes decreased, but my linux just crashed (first time since installing it).

I'm pretty certain that this was fault of the wireless driver, those are steps I did, before it happen.

My computer was in suspend to RAM state.
- made computer come back from suspend to RAM state
- since wireless card wasn't connecting to anything, I called sudo iwlist scan in terminal (it would be great to have that option in network manager)
- it showed wlan0: No scan results (didn't even take time to scan); while annoying this is normal and happens randomly.
- when this happens, I generally either restart NetworkManager, or untick & tick back "Enable Wireless" in Network Manager.
- there's 2 seconds freeze when I do, but this time it ended with caps lock & scroll lock blinking, and the mouse pointer pointing at "Enable Wireless" checkbox, with the checkbox still being ticked.

I'm sorry I'm unable to provide more detail. Does ubuntu have option to make kernel dump core when it crashes?
It seems to be much easier to debug things on FreeBSD (it can be configured so when it crashes it dumps memory to swap, and uppon next reboot it moves it from swap to a file in /var/crash.