On Friday 06 November 2009 20:37:00 James Grossmann wrote: > Doing it from the console doesn't seem to give a kernel oops... it > just locks up the computer such that I can't even change the caps lock > status. It starts the connection, and then the activity light on the > card goes on and the computer is locked up. well, there are other ways to capture the oops, but I don't think your laptop has a serial console or a real reset button?! does your caps lock & scroll lock LED blink? (they should) does the kernel reboot itself (after ~10 seconds), if you add panic=10 to the kernel-parameters in grub configuration? do you have some sort of bootsplash or frame buffer console? (e.g. KMS/vesa/etc...) because these advanced features can make it really hard to get the message to the screen before it goes black. is there nothing in /var/log/syslog after a crash? > With regard to the losing connection/timing out, I'm seeing that a > fair amount, when I have data transferring (watching an active ssh > connection, or streaming audio), and especially when I'm not doing > anything... well, there could be several different things, I hope you're using services like Network-manager, wpa_supplicant to manage your connection. Because they will automatically reconnect as soon as the link dies. what could be interesting: iw dev wlanX scan / iwlist wlanX scan dump from your AP... especially the TSF/tsf value, (it's a hexadecimal value which acts like a uptime for the AP) Regards, Chr -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
