Re: Is Network-Manager freezing my system?

[gn643202 <jerry@jperkins.us>]

thveillon.debian wrote:
> Patrick Wiseman wrote:
> > ... Yesterday, my
> > system froze twice, i.e. became completely unresponsive, the caps lock
> > LED flashing, as it does on this machine when it's frozen.  (A quick
> > Google search suggests that's a sign of kernel panic.)  The only
> > remedy is to hold down the power button until it powers down.  The
> > reason I suspect Network-Manager is twofold: (1) the freeze only
> > happened when I had the machine hard-wired to my network, and (2)
> > syslog showed lots of wlan0 activity - trying to connect, being denied
> > a DHCP address - just before the freeze occurs.  Has anyone else had a
> > similar experience?  I don't want to file a bug report against
> > Network-Manager unless I'm pretty sure it's the culprit.
>
> it was happening to me with an atheros chip and ath5k module. Removing
> NetworkManager in favor of WICD solved the issue, so I am pretty sure it
> was the trouble maker.   ...
> Tom

   I have had the same problem.
   Searched Synaptic but could not find the WICD package in Lenny.

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