Tried commenting out the eth0 in the /etc/network. No effect. This is not related to whether the wireless is connected to the router or not either. Everything around me is ecrypted and I have not yet entered the encryption key. I get soft lockup at random several minutes after boot. Its got to be a bug with the RT61 drivers themselves. I had a similar problem in Gentoo on a different machine, my stable system began to lock at random as soon as I installed the RT61. My solution for that machine had been to buy a different wireless card (Atheros chipset) and reinstall OS. I'd prefer it if the drivers could be fixed for RT61, buying two wireless cards per machine is getting expensive rather quickly.
Tried commenting out the eth0 in the /etc/network. No effect. This is not related to whether the wireless is connected to the router or not either. Everything around me is ecrypted and I have not yet entered the encryption key. I get soft lockup at random several minutes after boot. Its got to be a bug with the RT61 drivers themselves. I had a similar problem in Gentoo on a different machine, my stable system began to lock at random as soon as I installed the RT61. My solution for that machine had been to buy a different wireless card (Atheros chipset) and reinstall OS. I'd prefer it if the drivers could be fixed for RT61, buying two wireless cards per machine is getting expensive rather quickly.