Freezes every 15 seconds

[helios]

Using 1.9 on the kde side (but this problem replicates on gnome as well). As soon as the login screen appears, the computer begins a cycle of complete freeze-ups about every 15 seconds. They last about 10 seconds, I have a working computer for a few seconds then it' rinse, lather, repeat.

The real problem though is that I am totally dependent upon wireless and I know that when this freeze-up occurs, I am not going to have any wireless service. It says no netorks found. Now, I can leave the computer to it's own misery for 2-5 hours and when I come back, the freezeups are gone and the wireless is working. Don't know about you but I am thinking 2-5 hour bootups are a bit long.

I switched from network-manager (nw-applet) to wicd and that seemed to solve the problem for a day but it's baaccckkkkk. Without a doubt, what I have is an extremely attractive word processor, when it isn't freezing that is. This isn't an Ultimate problem...it's doing it in Ubuntu as well...I just won't post in the ubuntu forums anymore....reasons abound and most of them I won't repeat. Someone wise once said, "if you can't say something nice about someone....."

save it for email flames.

Anyone got a clue as to what I can do to fix this?

EDIT

OK, dug around in the var/log/syslog file and found the culprit...I just need thy ultra-geek-dom to help me figure out what to do about it. snippet of that log follows:

Dec 7 10:57:17 helios kernel: [ 60.956805] [drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20060119 on minor 0
Dec 7 10:57:22 helios kernel: [ 61.365574] ndiswrapper (mp_reset:62): wlan0 is being reset
Dec 7 10:57:30 helios gdmgreeter[6071]: WARNING: Theme broken: must have pam-message label!
Dec 7 10:57:42 helios kernel: [ 81.352577] ndiswrapper (mp_reset:62): wlan0 is being reset
Dec 7 10:58:14 helios kernel: [ 113.331799] ndiswrapper (mp_reset:62): wlan0 is being reset
Dec 7 10:58:16 helios hald: mounted /dev/sdg1 on behalf of uid 1000
Dec 7 10:58:40 helios kernel: [ 139.314866] ndiswrapper (mp_reset:62): wlan0 is being reset
Dec 7 10:58:56 helios kernel: [ 155.304461] ndiswrapper (mp_reset:62): wlan0 is being reset
Dec 7 10:59:18 helios kernel: [ 177.290166] ndiswrapper (mp_reset:62): wlan0 is being reset
Dec 7 10:59:40 helios kernel: [ 199.275869] ndiswrapper (mp_reset:62): wlan0 is being reset
Dec 7 11:00:20 helios kernel: [ 239.249909] ndiswrapper (mp_reset:62): wlan0 is being reset
Dec 7 11:00:52 helios kernel: [ 271.229059] ndiswrapper (mp_reset:62): wlan0 is being reset
Dec 7 11:01:24 helios kernel: [ 303.208237] ndiswrapper (mp_reset:62): wlan0 is being reset


h

[LeadFingers]

Wow, did you ever get bit by the wireless bug!

Let it warm-up so it quits freezing, then copy & paste these commands in a terminal:

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iwconfig > ~/Desktop/wlan.txt

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ifconfig >> ~/Desktop/wlan.txt

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sudo lshw -C network >> ~/Desktop/wlan.txt

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iwlist scanning >> ~/Desktop/wlan.txt

Pay attention that the first one use only one ">" the other ones two ">>". Then post the contents of the wlan.txt file that you will find on your desktop.

[helios]

OK...sorry for the delay. Got called out on service calls yesterday. Thanks for the response.

h

wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"linksys"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:1A:70:7F:C8:16
Bit Rate=36 Mb/s Tx-Power:46 dBm Sensitivity=0/3
RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:50/100 Signal level:-64 dBm Noise level:-96 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0f:1f:49:79:3f
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
Interrupt:20

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:22 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:22 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:1100 (1.0 KB) TX bytes:1100 (1.0 KB)

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:18:e7:36:01:0d
inet addr:192.168.1.100 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::218:e7ff:fe36:10d/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1685 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1634 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1230527 (1.1 MB) TX bytes:319814 (312.3 KB)
Interrupt:16 Memory:fe9fdc00-fe9fdc25

*-network:0
description: Wireless interface
product: RTL-8185 IEEE 802.11a/b/g Wireless LAN Controller
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 4
bus info: pci@0000:01:04.0
logical name: wlan0
version: 20
serial: 00:18:e7:36:01:0d
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ndiswrapper+net8185 driverversion=1.52+Airlink101,06/14/2007,5.109 ip=192.168.1.100 latency=64 link=yes maxlatency=64 mingnt=32 module=ndiswrapper multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11g
*-network:1
description: Ethernet interface
product: BCM4401 100Base-T
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 9
bus info: pci@0000:01:09.0
logical name: eth0
version: 01
serial: 00:0f:1f:49:79:3f
size: 10MB/s
capacity: 100MB/s
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=b44 driverversion=2.0 duplex=half latency=64 link=no module=ssb multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=10MB/s
wlan0 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 00:22:A4:3A:55:21
ESSID:"CBW"
Protocol:IEEE 802.11g
Mode:Managed
Frequency:2.412 GHz (Channel 1)
Quality:32/100 Signal level:-75 dBm Noise level:-96 dBm
Encryption key:on
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s
9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
Extra:bcn_int=100
Extra:atim=0
Cell 02 - Address: 00:1A:70:7F:C8:16
ESSID:"linksys"
Protocol:IEEE 802.11g
Mode:Managed
Frequency:2.437 GHz (Channel 6)
Quality:51/100 Signal level:-63 dBm Noise level:-96 dBm
Encryption key:off
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
Extra:bcn_int=100
Extra:atim=0
Cell 03 - Address: 00:1C:10:97:26:91
ESSID:"Roses"
Protocol:IEEE 802.11g
Mode:Managed
Frequency:2.437 GHz (Channel 6)
Quality:32/100 Signal level:-75 dBm Noise level:-96 dBm
Encryption key:on
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
Extra:bcn_int=100
Extra:atim=0

[LeadFingers]

A few ideas:
From your initial post it appears your system is hanging at the ndiswrapper but you already knew that.
I know you're a big fan of the main Ubuntu forum, so I apologize in advance but this post looks promising for your chipset. Yes, you're not the only one with this chipset and this problem.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=588279&page=2
Did you remember to blacklist the r818x driver?

[helios]

Thank you...I had not blacklisted that driver yet because I wasn't sure that I needed to...it has worked in other distros without having to do so. It is done now. I did not do the ndiswrapper script because it is already installed and shows so via commandline and ndisgtk. I did however add the lines to blacklist the driver you indicated in the modprobe file.

Will reboot here as soon as I get my work done...can't afford to have it hang until I'm finished, should it do so for reasons yet undiscovered.

Thank you again,

h

[LeadFingers]

If you follow the link from the other post, it also has a few other tidbits that have helped a several other folks with similar problems.