I can confirm I am suffering the same freezes. Machine boots up, wireless use , freeze in minutes.
This occurs to me on a IBM ThinkPad T60 with this NIC: 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01) these modules get to load: lsmod | grep ath ath5k 121976 0 mac80211 209734 1 ath5k ath 8073 1 ath5k cfg80211 130639 3 ath5k,mac80211,ath led_class 2864 2 thinkpad_acpi,ath5k -- Hard freeze on large file transfers with Atheros AR8132 / L1c https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/572249 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