My corrupted Suse installation

I’ve been having this weird problem where during times of high network activity my system will lock up. I think it has something to do with the ipw2200 package or firmware or something. It’s happened with each install of Suse 9.2 and I keep waiting for 9.3 or a new Mandrake or something to see if this can be fixed. I’ve tried upgrading the ipw2200 package several times but there’s something about Suse’s modprobe or something that makes the procedure infinitely more complicated than I’m willing to attempt.

Once it crashed in the middle of a major package installation and my db installation got corrupted. Since db is used to keep track of packages, I’m now having trouble updating anything. I’m too lazy to reinstall again this soon after the last time, so I’m going to see if I can just survive off of old software for now. Having to use obsolete stuff now will just make the next distro upgrade all that much sweeter.