Computer Crashes when Connecting to Wireless Internet

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#1

This problem started a few days ago. Whenever I attempt to connect to a wireless connection via network manager, my computer completely crashes, going to a black screen with no input from keyboard or mouse. It forces me to reboot using the power switch. Everything works fine when I connect to an ethernet cable, so I am sure it’s a problem with my wireless driver.

  I already tried (successfully) reinstalling the ath9k driver via compat wireless as was the advice from other forums, but this had no effect. I'm currently running opensuse 11.4, and haven't had this problem until a few days ago

  This problem seems a bit ridiculous for a task as simple as connecting to a wireless network, so I'm convinced that either there is some sort of relatively simple way of fixing it, or windows really is the only decent operating system out there... Since I don't want to have to go with the latter, please help re-assure my faith in linux... any help would be appreciated!
#2

Perhaps tell us if you use kde or gnome

Post the result of

zypper lr -d

Could test a new user login, see if happens with that

#3

Sorry I’m using KDE. The result of that comand is:

           Alias             | Name                       | Enabled | Refresh | Priority | Type   | URI                                                             | Service
--+-------------------+----------------------------+---------+---------+----------+--------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+--------
1 | repo-debug        | openSUSE-11.4-Debug        | No      | Yes     |   99     | NONE   | [Index of /debug/distribution/11.4/repo/oss](http://download.opensuse.org/debug/distribution/11.4/repo/oss/)  |        
2 | repo-debug-update | openSUSE-11.4-Update-Debug | No      | Yes     |   99     | NONE   | [Index of /debug/update/11.4](http://download.opensuse.org/debug/update/11.4/)                 |        
3 | repo-non-oss      | openSUSE-11.4-Non-Oss      | Yes     | Yes     |   99     | yast2  | [Index of /distribution/11.4/repo/non-oss](http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.4/repo/non-oss/)    |        
4 | repo-oss          | openSUSE-11.4-Oss          | Yes     | Yes     |   99     | yast2  | [Index of /distribution/11.4/repo/oss](http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.4/repo/oss/)        |        
5 | repo-source       | openSUSE-11.4-Source       | No      | Yes     |   99     | NONE   | [Index of /source/distribution/11.4/repo/oss](http://download.opensuse.org/source/distribution/11.4/repo/oss/) |        
6 | repo-update       | openSUSE-11.4-Update       | Yes     | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | [Index of /update/11.4](http://download.opensuse.org/update/11.4/)                       |        
7 | science           | science                    | Yes     | No      |   99     | rpm-md | [Index of /repositories/science/openSUSE_11.3](http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/science/openSUSE_11.3) |
#4

Using compat-wireless might even be worse. There is a bug in some recent
versions of c-w that does crash the computer, but I think that only affects
kernel 2.6.38. I’m not aware of one in the mainline driver.

#5

Alright so any suggestions as to what I should do?

#6

Change repo 7 to this url
Index of /repositories/science/openSUSE_11.4
Probably easier just to delete the existing one and add that one in. (Not that I see this as the source of your trouble)

Tell me, how did you

I already tried (successfully) reinstalling the ath9k driver via compat wireless
My gut feeling on this would be to try

zypper dup
#7

Bump. Please help I need this fixed ASAP

#8

Dude
I just posted above

#9

Also, take a look at this:

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=427111

This about rtl8185 but the behavior is the same. You might want to start your own bugzilla. There has been no solution for my bug.

#10

On 05/20/2011 11:36 PM, Prexy wrote:
>
> Also, take a look at this:
>
> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=427111
>
> This about rtl8185 but the behavior is the same. You might want to
> start your own bugzilla. There has been no solution for my bug.

For both the ath9k and the rtl8185 users, is there a command that reliably will
crash the computer? If so, then use the following:

sleep 10 ; <command_that_crashes>

During the 10 second sleep, use CTRL-ALT-F10 to switch to the logging console to
see if any messages are logged when the crash occurs. You will either have to
manually write those down, of take a picture of the screen and post the photo.
BTW, CTRL-ALT-F7 gets you back to the normal display.

#11

My system crashes (hangs, actually) when the card is probed. I can boot with the card installed but trying to set it up crashes things. Similarly, trying to run the Live CD crashes when it is probing hardware. So, I don’t know how I can stop the crash with a sleep command. Do you have a suggestion?

IIRC, I don’t crash in WinXP, Knoppix or Puppy.

#12

On 05/21/2011 11:06 PM, Prexy wrote:
>
> My system crashes (hangs, actually) when the card is probed. I can boot
> with the card installed but trying to set it up crashes things.
> Similarly, trying to run the Live CD crashes when it is probing
> hardware. So, I don’t know how I can stop the crash with a sleep
> command. Do you have a suggestion?
>
> IIRC, I don’t crash in WinXP, Knoppix or Puppy.

It probably won’t crash with older kernels. Windows is irrelevant.

What commands are needed to set ip up? Those are the candidates for a sleep.

#13

zypper dup had no effect. Computer still crashes when connecting to wireless. Is there some way to re-install the wireless driver, or whatever’s causing the problems?

#14

You are correct. Older kernels used this card with no problems. Not sure of your question. The machine crashes either on install of system or attempt to install the card. In either case, probing the card causes the hang. I go through yast to set up a card, but use the cli to check the driver.

#15

On 05/28/2011 12:06 PM, Prexy wrote:
>
> lwfinger;2343524 Wrote:
>> On 05/21/2011 11:06 PM, Prexy wrote:
>>>
>>> My system crashes (hangs, actually) when the card is probed. I can
>> boot
>>> with the card installed but trying to set it up crashes things.
>>> Similarly, trying to run the Live CD crashes when it is probing
>>> hardware. So, I don’t know how I can stop the crash with a sleep
>>> command. Do you have a suggestion?
>>>
>>> IIRC, I don’t crash in WinXP, Knoppix or Puppy.
>>
>> It probably won’t crash with older kernels. Windows is irrelevant.
>>
>> What commands are needed to set ip up? Those are the candidates for a
>> sleep.You are correct. Older kernels used this card with no problems. Not
> sure of your question. The machine crashes either on install of system
> or attempt to install the card. In either case, probing the card causes
> the hang. I go through yast to set up a card, but use the cli to check
> the driver.

Add the driver to /etc/modprobe.d/50-blacklist.conf. Then after rebooting, issue
the “sleep 10 ; sudo /sbin/modprobe -v <driver_name>” command, and then
immediately do the CTRL-ALT-F10 and wait for the crash.