[ltp] Lockups with T520

Robert Tomsick linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Mon, 23 May 2011 14:59:54 -0400


On Mon, 2011-05-23 at 19:46 +0200, Philipp Kern wrote:
> On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 01:03:50PM -0400, Robert Tomsick wrote:
> > On Mon, 2011-05-23 at 14:39 +0200, Ole Langbehn wrote:
> > > The symptoms are:
> > > * screen freezes
> > > * can't connect to box via network
> > > * sound playback goes to very short loop
> > > * after reset, the log files (/var/log/messages, Xorg.log) don't show
> > > anything related to the lockup
> [...]
> > Do you have an Intel WLAN card?
> > If so, grab the latest experimental firmware and try using that.
> 
> At least if you connect to 11n APs…  didn't see it so far (with T420) on 11abg,
> but 11n crashed my box.

I did.  I had lockups using a 802.11g AP until I upgraded to the
experimental firmware.  (Using 2.6.38.4 through 2.6.38.6)

YMMV -- it could just be luck, but it sure *seems* like it worked for
me.

-Rob