Comment 223 for bug 585765

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ischoegl (ischoegl) wrote : Re: Ubuntu 10.04 random freezes

Sebastian,
Check your wifi card - I've endured random freezes on my ThinkPad (a T410) for over a year. I narrowed my freezes down to the Realtek Wifi card that appears to be installed on a lot of thinkpads: mine's

lspci | grep RTL
03:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8191SEvB Wireless LAN Controller (rev 10)

The drivers that were packaged with lucid caused the system to freeze randomly on certain wireless networks. The drivers downloaded from Realtek worked better. However, all of what I've said holds for lucid ...