Bug 272572

Summary: System crashes when try to activate wireless device via keyboard hotkey
Product: [Unmaintained] Network Management Reporter: Neomec <neomec>
Component: WirelessAssignee: Will Stephenson <wstephenson>
Status: RESOLVED WAITINGFORINFO    
Severity: crash CC: lamarque
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Ubuntu   
OS: Linux   
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Description Neomec 2011-05-05 22:32:27 UTC
Version:           1.0 (using KDE 4.6.2) 
OS:                Linux

Wireless Device Hardware switch is On. But it shows disabled by software. I tried to activate with checkbox from Network Settings and I cannot. Then I tried to activate via Fn and F5 combination and after trying 2 or 3 times whole screen goes black and nothing responds. Lenovo U165 AMD Turion 2 Neo K625 Netbook. Broadcom 802.11n Wireless Device

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Fn and F5 keyboard combination when activating Wireless Network Device.

Actual Results:  
Screen goes black and system freeze.

Expected Results:  
Activate Wireless Device

OS: Linux (x86_64) release 2.6.38-8-generic
Compiler: cc
Comment 1 Lamarque V. Souza 2011-07-06 00:40:43 UTC
Is this still happening?