I don't know if it's related, but when my sister's Airport Express card failed on her iBook, MacOS X crashed regularly. I've never had a wireless driver crash a Linux machine so I'm tempted to say it may be a hardware problem. J-F On 2011-07-21, at 14:00, John C Nash wrote: > I'm at a scientific workshop in Santa Barbara. > > One of the scientists had to get his machine replaced a couple of weeks ago. Quad > processor Dell Latitude E6410 running Ubuntu 11.04. > > While at the hotel, he could run some fairly fancy statistical models that compile C++ > (the tool is called AD Model Builder). But at the scientific institution (NCEAS), things > crashed. He spent a lot of time trying to fix things until I suggested turning off > wireless (not just disconnect). > > Has anyone seen any such strange happening.\? We suspect possible h/w issue or maybe a > driver bug. > > Cheers, JN > _______________________________________________ > Linux mailing list > Linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca > http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux