network causes complete lock up

[C. Matt Detzel]

I'm new at this, so forgive me if I'm not following conventions for posting.

Running Flight 6 on an Averatec 3250HX laptop with Rhine II fast ethernet adapter. Also have [but not configured] a Netgear WPN511 card [detected as RT2500]. Network doesn't work whatsoever - I get an IP address, but pinging anything on my local network results in "destination host unreachable"; if I attempt to down eth0 and bring it back up--either through the Gnome Network app or from command line [using sudo ifdown eth0 / ifup eth0]--computer completely locks up, requiring a power down. It downs fine; attempting to bring adapter back up causes the lockup.

hardware works fine in breezy and in windows, so I know it's not the cable or adapter. As I can't get internet access from this laptop while in Dapper, I'm running as is, fresh-from-cd Flight 6. I used the defaults during install as well [no expert mode].

any ideas?

[C. Matt Detzel (cmdetzel)]

also tried Flight 5 - same exact problem.

[Dennis Kaarsemaker (dennis)]

There was a kernel update after flight 6. In 5 days beta 1 will arrive,
which includes this kernel. Can you please tast with that version?

[C. Matt Detzel (cmdetzel)]

Dennis Kaarsemaker wrote:
> There was a kernel update after flight 6. In 5 days beta 1 will arrive,
> which includes this kernel. Can you please tast with that version?
>
>
So April 20? I will do this and report back.

C. Matt Detzel

[C. Matt Detzel (cmdetzel)]

posted this already on the earlier-created bug -- sorry for the dupe. Beta 1 has the same problem with lockups.

[Benjamin Fogel (benjaminfogel)]

This problem still exists with my SMC286W-G ( Wireless EZ Connect g ) USB network card.

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