Just wanted to let you know that this bug has a _really_ nasty interaction with the wireless chip on the laptop (a fairly common ipw3945). When one of these hanges occurs, the module may crash with a PREEMPT, which essentially means that wireless is lost unless the computer is rebooted. The probabilities of this occurring are seemingly related with the network activity at the time of the hang. For instance, if I run aMule and have some downloads going on (nothing too speedy, maybe 30 kb/s between upload and download) the wireless connection will rarely be up for more than 1 hour. (No exaggeration - it actually just went out as I was writing this report - total uptime is 12 _minutes_).
I'm a little frustrated at not being able to use my favourite distro effectively on my computer. I understand that maybe this is not the correct place to report the bug, or that I should provide more information, or that you are just very busy at the moment, and that's why there are no advances on the issue. In that case, I'd really like a pointer to what to do next to help you, or to the correct libata mantainer. As I said before, I like to think that I'm a rather savvy Linux user, but if it comes to low-level kernel debugging, I'm totally at a loss. -- ata_piix problem with Intel ICH7 chipset https://launchpad.net/bugs/53754 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
