Comment 250 for bug 204996

Does anyone here has backport-modules installed? I was having a hard freeze (with no output, just the complete freeze) with disapeared after uninstalling backport modules. My hardware is a core2duo laptop with ati graphics (X1600) and intel iwl3945 wireless card. When someone sugested that the crash could be related to wireless networking I remembered that hardy default driver was iwl3945 1.2.0 and backport modules provided a more recent one... I notice an obvious difference in performace between the to driver versions, but the crashes seem to go away.

backport-modules include mac80211 and iwlwifi new versions, as well as other drivers, so if the problem was in mac80211 this could be the reason why so many different hardware configurations are affected right?

The freeze started around beta time (a little bit before, as I can recall) and remained till I removed backport-modules the other day. Now i'm with kernel 2.6.24-19-generic