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Okay, I figured out what happened.

I've long been in the practice of having two 15 GB partitions (used for / ) and two 30 GB partitions (used for /home ). Every time a new Ubuntu comes out I...

Thank you andrewthomas! Your 64-bit deb files worked great! This will definitely help me attempt the switch from gnome 2.x to XFCE. Also, holy crap, everything runs faster in XFCE.

I haven't read the entire thread (176 pages? Wow!) but instead just the first and last two pages. Has anyone considered that it might be your wireless causing the problem?

I have a Broadcom...

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Please help! I'm starting to think my hard drive is possessed or something...

It is happening again!
I am now on 11.04 64-bit, using kernel 2.6.38-8-generic. All of my partitions are now ext3.
I don't know if I have explained my situation well enough so perhaps this visual...

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Nobody has any ideas, or also has this problem? Could it be a bad kernel? A failing disk? Anything?

Two boots ago I added a new repository and installed new software. This software is...

I seem to be having an odd problem. I created an entry in my "Startup Applications" menu about a week ago that loads some video wallpaper. Afterwards, I rebooted and the entry was gone. Then...

Still using the STA driver, I decided to try out a new router. I replaced my old wireless-g model and I am now using a dual band N router. Using the 5GHz band, performance has been great so far. ...

@ facebuntu - Yes. Using the BCM 43224 card on an Alienware M17x. The STA driver sucks. I get dropped from my network every 20 minutes or so. Reconnecting can take 30 seconds or more. Packet...

I have gone back to the STA driver with the broadcom-sta-common package installed and it actually seems to be working much better than it did before. Thank you to goinglinux for the suggestion! And...

Shoot, I thought we had it here! Had another kernel panic. After booting up, I noticed a message flash across the screen, and I also found it in dmesg:


brcm80211: Unknown parameter 'maxcpus'
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Thanks again Ayuthia!

The STA driver with the broadcom-sta-common package didn't seem to help. I have moved back to the brcm80211 driver and added the .conf file as you suggested. Hopefully...

With the new brcm80211 driver, I have already experienced several kernel panics. I notice on the linuxwireless site, it says this:
43224/5 has a locking issue, stable with maxcpus=1, can crash...

Apparently it gets even easier. I went into "System - Administration - Additional Drivers", and deactivated the "Broadcom STA wireless driver". After rebooting, the system automatically started...

Yes, blacklisting should keep it from loading on startup. Ayuthia's idea of "not blacklisting anything yet" was to check to see if the new driver helps. After running the commands he listed, and...

I've got the same card, and a similar problem. The card works, but very poorly.

The OpenSUSE link was very helpful - I was able to compile the brcm80211 driver, but when I try to insmod it, I get...

Good news! It is fixed. Here is how I did it:

Note that this fix is pretty Alienware specific, so YMMV.

Booting into Win7, I updated the BIOS but that didn't seem to help. Next, I updated...

I seem to be in the same boat. ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 in an Alienware M17x. In power management, I have it set to "blank screen" when lid closes, and this is enough to cause a lockup. It...

Hey, this worked great for me. Thank you very much!

I'm connecting to several XP boxes using UltraVNC, and xvnc4viewer seems to be the only one that works for me. (Using MS Login on some of my...

Nevermind, I'm good now. Booted into XP and found wireless was toast there too. Reinstalled XP drivers and things were back to normal. Rebooted into Ubuntu and everything was working again. Looks...

What did you change about your settings? Mine just crapped out. Recently upgraded to 2.6.31-19-generic. Tried rolling back to -17 but no dice. Same issue, no DNS. Fortunately ethernet still...

I can confirm headaches. Firefox is broken, continually dropping my sessions without warning. The flash plugin is the suspected culprit, but I don't know for sure what's wrong. It comes with 3.5.2...

Call me crazy, but I like to run the disc checking program on install CD's at least 3 times before i use it to install. I've had discs that passed only on the first try, and I figure using it after...

Ok, I tried it and it worked great, with a couple of minor hitches:
- My network ports renamed themselves eth1 and wlan1 instead of eth0 and wlan0. I only noticed because I use them with conky, and...

Thank you for the quick reply 1nooodlse. Yes, my biggest concern was breaking something if i tried, so it is good to know that it should be okay to try.

Actually, there are two HDD's in this...