RE: [Hampshire] Skype fails and takes out Gutsy

On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 22:45 +0000, Alex wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Salisbury
> It's hard to investigate when the basic tools stop working! Can anyone
> think what might be happening? Is there any way of getting ps
> information direct from /sys or /proc or other magic to help find out

> Anything in dmesg or the various files in /var/log?

What chipset is on the mobo?

I had a similar experience with a USB Wlan dongle, the effects were the
same as you describe, I'm also running Ubuntu (gutsy) and the chipset is
VIA. The same dongle works fine in my Dell lappy.

Wayne