Comment 27 for bug 90271

I don't agree that Bug #34902 is a duplicate. It is talking about locking of the system due to a totally different card and driver. The card/driver on this bug is an 8139 ethernet card (wired network, not wireless); the card in question for the other bug is a Ralink RT2500 wireless card.

It is true that the Ralink RT73 wireless card on my Everex StepNote SA2053 has some issues with Ubuntu, but not the ones described in Bug #34902.The rausb drivers that came with Feisty and Gutsy did not work, and even with working drivers, the wireless card did not work with the Network manager application, but I never saw the laptop hang due to the wireless issues. Also, commenters on the other bug reported they couldn't get their machines to work even using the Serial Monkey drivers, but this laptop's wireless works just fine with the Serial Monkey drivers, with some scripts and the Serial Monkey wireless manager application (RutilT) in place of the network manager.

The people who reported #34902 and commented on it were having much more serious wireless problems than people with a StepNote laptop (and other similar ones), and not the same problems reported here, from what I can tell.

     --Jennifer