Comment 227 for bug 204996

I enabled the backports and proposed repositories on this machine and
updated from those shortly after my previous post, that seems to have
fixed my problems for now.

Sandair wrote:
> I have the exact same problem as the orinal bug report. Same machine:
> Dell C400, 512MB. Different wireless card. I have 2.6.24-17.
>
> It freezes randomly and completely. Even the network lights stop
> responding. And there is absolutely nothing in the logs. I tend to
> think it is related to the network because when I don't use the network
> interface (either wireless or wired) it takes much longer to freeze.
>
> Apparently kernel 2.6.25 solved the problem, but I can't get it from ppa
> anymore (they're on 2.6.26 for intrepid now).
>
> Is there a fix in the pipeline that will be distributed with the
> updates? Or should I update my kernel manually?
>
>