8.10 freezes on Thinkpad T61 when Intel PRO/Wireless 4965 enabled

[UnSandpiper]

Since upgrading from 8.04 to 8.10 beta on my Thinkpad T61, I encounter system freezes (screen freezes, caps-lock light blinking) some random time after boot. Can be after 5 minutes or even after couple of hours. I've noticed that it was more likely to happen during IM conversations either via Pidgin or Skype, but that might be coincidence, since it happens also during other times.

My current workaround is to deactivate wireless through the gnome network manager. When I do that I can work the whole day without a crash. That's why I suspect something related to wireless to cause this.

I've tried booting 8.10 with the 2.6.19 kernel (which worked under 8.04 without problems) but with same results.

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thanks for your report.

This is likely a dup of bug 276990
Can you please run the command "sudo lspci -vvnn > lspci-vvnn.log" and attach the file lspci-vvnn.log

Thanks in advance.

[UnSandpiper (aybora)]

Thanks for your fast reply.

You are probably right about the duplicate.
Still I attached the lspci log.

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thanks. This is the same symptoms and same hardware I'm marking this report as duplicate.

[espc (eric-rosenblatt)]

Jean-Baptiste,

im kinda a beginner:

how do i type that fix exactly in my module?

sudo lspci -vvnn > lspci-vvnn.log" and attach the file lspci-vvnn.log

thanks