I tried both acpi=off in GRUB, and Larry's sudo iwconfig eth1 power off. Neither worked. Any other ideas? Is there a way to tell whats triggering events/0 to be exercised? Thanks, Eric On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 9:03 AM, Dazed_75 wrote: > I was having trouble with a machine I upgraded and found a solution. > Unfortunately, that machine has no video card at the moment so I can't check > for events/0. But the problem did have to do with some sluggishness and > intermittent wireless connectivity and it was also using a rt2500 like in > that bug report. I can't find the reference I found before but here is > another though it lists no solution: > > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1484450&page=1 > > The solution I found claimed that it was an old bug that got re-introduced > into the kernel driver and that the fix had been committed so would be > re-fixed in the next kernel. In the meantime, the problem fix can be tested > with "sudo iwconfig wlan0 power off" from a terminal (your interface may be > other than wlan0). This apparently turns off a frequent activity to power > down the card or something like that. > > Once I did this the machine was fine until I had to steal the video card > for the club computer. > > > On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 7:24 AM, Kevin Fries wrote: > >> Menu.list is Grub 1, Ubuntu now uses Grub2 >> >> On Aug 13, 2010 12:44 AM, "Eric Cope" wrote: >> >> I looked for /boot/grub/menu.lst >> Then, I tried to run grub, but grub is not currently installed. Is LILO >> the preferred boot loader? I thought for sure Grub would be... >> >> Eric >> >> On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 11:26 PM, Technomage_Hawke < >> technomage.hawke@gmail.com> wrote: > > here is... >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > > > -- > Dazed_75 a.k.a. Larry > > The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, > that I wish it always to be kept alive. > - Thomas Jefferson > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >