A few more tests, working on my Dell Inspiron 1501 now.
Basically the problem continues. I tried using gftp and the system hung after transferring about 1-2Gb of files.
Thinking it might be a window manager thing, I used alt-F2 to get a console, then tried the transfer with wget. I got a lot of files, probably 5Gb, but eventually the wget froze midway through a transfer.
A few more tests, working on my Dell Inspiron 1501 now.
Basically the problem continues. I tried using gftp and the system hung after transferring about 1-2Gb of files.
Thinking it might be a window manager thing, I used alt-F2 to get a console, then tried the transfer with wget. I got a lot of files, probably 5Gb, but eventually the wget froze midway through a transfer.
No messages in syslog in either case.
Hard reset only way out.
Remains a show-stopper, on both computers.