Comment 13 for bug 216634

I do. Yesterday I installed linux-backports-modules-intrepid, and today I have had to breakdowns. Both times I have lost my connection like I have so often before, then I write sudo iwlist wlan0 scan, just to be sure, and it didn't terminate or return anything, and then I try to click on network manager applet, and all freezes up, and the can do almost nothing. The light doesn't even come on when I push CapsLock (oddly it does when push NumLock), the only thing I can do is restart X (with ctrl+alt+backspace), but that just brings me to terminal where nothing seems to happen, and I have to stop the computer by holding down the start button for 10 seconds.

Normally when I loose the connection, I am able to use sudo iwlist wlan0 scan (with no result but an error message saying something about not being able to find anything or that the network card didn't respond, or something like that, I cant really remember), and do modprob -r iwlagn and modprobe iwlang, and bring the connection up again.

Let me know if you need more info