Comment 4 for bug 721570

Thanks

I'm looking at a similar issue.

Different card. So its another data point in my investigation

I don't suspect at this point that its wicd.

Thanks
Joe

--- On Fri, 2/18/11, Sean Hayes <email address hidden> wrote:

> From: Sean Hayes <email address hidden>
> Subject: [Bug 721570] Re: Whole computer freezes when trying to connect
> To: <email address hidden>
> Date: Friday, February 18, 2011, 8:01 PM
> Here's the lspci -vv output for my
> card:
>
> 09:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc.
> AR928X Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)
>     Subsystem: Device 1a32:0306
>     Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle-
> MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
> DisINTx-
>     Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B-
> ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort-
> >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
>     Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
>     Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 18
>     Region 0: Memory at f0400000 (64-bit,
> non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
>     Capabilities: <access denied>
>     Kernel driver in use: ath9k
>     Kernel modules: ath9k
>
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> Title:
>   Whole computer freezes when trying to connect
>
> Status in wicd:
>   New
>
> Bug description:
>   Wicd 1.7.0
>   Ubuntu 10.10 x64
>   Acer Aspire 5542-5547
>
>   For the past few weeks I've been having problems
> with my laptop
>   freezing while starting up. It doesn't happen when I
> disable wireless
>   while booting (using the button on my laptop), but
> does happen
>   sometimes when I re-enable it and try to connect to
> my router. The
>   freezing occurs while the Wicd status bar says it's
> authenticating.
>
>   I also posted this problem on ubuntuforums.org:
>   http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=10428572
>
>   I'm not sure if this is a problem with Wicd or one
> of the libraries it
>   uses, but it's almost certainly related to
> connecting to the Internet.
>