I've been posting complaints here for some time about total lockups using the 2.4.x kernels. They occur when, and only when, I'm on line. Today I tried using a different ISP and was online for an hour, doing a long download, without any problems.
I can't see any way in which my ISP could send a signal causing the lockups, but is it conceivable? It's true to say that there are a lot of problems at the moment with this (free) ISP. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux GNU/Debian (Windows-free zone) For an electronic book (The Assassins of Alamut), skeptical essays, and over 150 book reviews, go to: http://www.acampbell.org.uk/ Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. [Carl Sagan]