restart problem

[Dist]

Im hoping i could get some quick help here, as i have a bit of a problem with my laptop at the moment.

I was booting up and was going to select XP in the boot loader, but pressed the right arrow instead of the down arrow, and i guess it took the right arrow for an OK and started booting ubuntu. When ubuntu was loaded and on the login screen, i went to options to restart. This is where the problem hit me.

It came up with a black screen with white text give me some sort of test messages at the top (which all was shown as [ OK ], so thats not the problem), and some error that keeps repeating, which is:

[ 50.722165] iwl3945: No space for Tx
[ 50.722231] iwl3945: Error sending REPLY_LEDS_CMD: iwl3945_enqueue_hcmd failed: -28

This repeats over and over. I am guessing the first part is a timestamp, and i have no idea what the rest of it means.

Anyone know what the problem is? even though i can type stuff on the screen it doesn't seem to respond to any commands, so i assume the only option is to do a restart. But how do i avoid this problem in the future and what caused it?

 

[ChrisB]

Looks like there's a problem starting up your wireless card. If you can I'd try disabling it for now.

 

[rsatd]

Looks like you got an intel wireless card, have a look here, might help.

 

[Dist]

Well i had to hold the power button to close down, so that i could start up again and go into XP. It's strange that it would have a problem starting wireless, because i thought by the time the login screen is displayed things like wireless drivers and everything like that is already fully loaded, and I'm not sure why would be a loading error when during a restart things like that should be closing, not loading.

 

[yashiro]

Looks like a driver issue or something to do with initiating the network manager without the right privileges. Try updating your driver, or even kernel if it's a low risk move.