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  1. Bug #277634
  2. Comment #8

Comment 8 for bug 277634

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Augusten (grilledeasterbunny) wrote :

Looking at the syslog, I saw a pattern. Just prior to each supplicant connection state change the system initiated this CRON:

Nov 24 09:20:01 augusten-T61p /USR/SBIN/CRON[11941]: (root) CMD ([ -x /usr/sbin/update-motd ] && /usr/sbin/update-motd 2>/dev/null)

I removed the me-specific information and did a Google search -what i found was very interesting: messages like the one on this page; people experiencing some sort of wireless hangs while using the 4965 agn (and I think others). I don't know anything about debugging or programming or Ubuntu -I can operate a can opener and that's it. But there had to be a pattern. So I snooped around and it didn't seem like the system would die if I disabled that CRON so I did. But upon restart is was back.

So using Synaptic, I removed the 'update-motd 2' completely. Since then, I have experienced no breaks or inrurruptions in wireless service. This is hardly a fix, it's a crude workaround but it does appear to work.

ab