Public bug reported:
On 8 August 2008 I installed an Edimax EW7128g PCI card with RT2561 chipset in
my Acer T120-3000 desktop PC which I dual-boot with XP(SP2).
I have been using all the other hardware since December 2006 with Edgy, Fiesty
& Gutsy.
At the time I was running Gutsy with kernel 2.6.22-14 (I think).
The PCI card worked fine in XP (always) but connection was erratic in Ubuntu.
Ubuntu forum advised me to upgrade to Hardy so I did that 16 August.
19 August in OOorg, using mouse in menus - had first ever freeze with Caps lock
& Scroll lock flashing - no mouse or keyboard so had to shut down on button.
After that I would get several similar crashes every day, seemingly always when
using the mouse & usually in Firefox-2.
6 September (using kernel 2.6.24-19) the French Ubuntu forum recommended
installing linux-backports-modules-2.6.24-19-generic which I did.
This included rt61pci version 2.1.4 instead of old 2.0.10
Since then I never had a freeze with 2.6.24-19.
At that time Firefox upgraded to 3.0
16 October I upgraded to kernel 2.6.24-21
Froze after 20 minutes & repeatedly.
Went back to booting kernel 2.6.24-19 OK.
7 December upgraded to kernel 2.6.24-22
Froze after 8 minutes in Firefox 3.0 (using mouse as usual).
Repeat freezes so booted 2.6.24-19 again.
12 December installed linux-backports-modules-2.6.24-22 with rt61pci version
2.1.8
Kernel 2.6.24-22 works fine with this fix.
No freezes since then.
I can still freeze within minutes with 2.6.24-21 which has not had the
backports modules.
Please ask for any additional information.
** Affects: firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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kernel panics when using mouse in Firefox
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/308300
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