Ubuntu Linux laptop crashes near a certain welding supplier

Ignoramus2817 · 2008-12-19T15:26:41+00:00

Very strange. I have a laptop running Ubuntu 8.10. While there aresome minor bugs, and inconveniences, it operates relatively reliably,is fully able to suspend, screensaver etc and is a joy to use, nice onbattery etc. When I am on the road I use "Wireless broadband". Anyway, two times in a row it froze when I parked my truck in front ofa certain welding supplier called Wisco (on Western Avenue inChicago).First I went there to fill an acetylene bottle, found the laptopfrozen with blinking keyboard LEDs, and dismissed freezing as a randombug.Then the bottle turned out to leak through the top of the valve, sonext day I took it there to replace it, and by the time I drove away,the laptop froze again!WTF???My only guess is that someone over there runs some sort of a hostileWifi station that crashes Linux. I am quite puzzled.

Dec 19, 2008 20 Replies

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Paul Hovnanian P.E. 17 years ago

And BlueTooth, if you've got it.

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