Comment 155 for bug 204996

Bastanteroma,

I think we have something in common. I've only used Hardy a couple of times because I don't want to constantly get the lockups, but when I do, I too get the hard lockups very soon after I log in. I saw in your lspci-wnn.log that you have an NVIDIA GeForce 6200; I have a GeForce 6150 SE. You say that you have a binary driver. Is that the driver from the Restricted Drivers Manager or from the NVIDIA site? I got my driver from the NVIDIA site. Finally, and most important is that you have a zd1211rw usb wireless adapter. I have a zd1211. I don't have the "rw", but it's close enough. Now I don't want to lead the devs and everyone else off of disk I/O, but maybe our usb wireless adapters are causing the problem, or the combination of our wireless adapters and our NVIDIA drivers. I'm going to unplug my wireless adapter and see if I don't get the lockups anymore. However, I won't be able to access the internet, so I'm gonna have to switch back to Vista to report my findings. I won't really be able to do much at all in Hardy without the internet, so maybe I'll just run a bunch of processes and see if it can handle it.

--Noah