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
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