I've having this problem on a Toshiba A80-132 (Equium) laptop. Occassional crashes that require hard-reboot. sometimes I need to remove the battery. Although oddly, often I can ssh in from another machine and reboot.
These crashes started after a clean install of 9.10. No problems in 9.04. Wireless details are: 06:02.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG [Calexico2] Network Connection (rev 05) Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device 2741 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 22 Memory at b8006000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2 Kernel driver in use: ipw2200 Kernel modules: ipw2200 Syslog around crashes always has: Nov 12 09:55:03 osprey wpa_supplicant[1453]: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-RESULTS Nov 12 09:57:03 osprey wpa_supplicant[1453]: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-RESULTS Nov 12 09:59:09 osprey kernel: imklog 4.2.0, log source = /var/run/rsyslog/kmsg started. -- wpa_supplicant causes system to crash. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/468519 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs