System Freezing Completely

[Parameshwara Bhat]

Hello List,

I had very bad freezing of the system,twice today morning - the kind one 
usually associates only with MS Windows and not Linux - quite unexpectedly.

I was running Opera Browser-7.23 version and wget-1.8.2-15.3 at the time.I 
have used Opera earlier and not seen this kind of problem.This problem 
repeated when wget was running alone too.

Only change in my system since installation was new modemboard based on 
smartlink chipset and driver slmdm-version 2.7.14.
I could not change over to either commandline-mode (ctrl+alt+F1) or invoke 
sysguard program to kill anyof these applications.Keyboard and mouse were 
dead too. I didnot anything else to do.What else is there to do in such a 
situation? Has anybody had this kind of problem in Fedora or Linux in 
general ?

Parameshwara Bhat
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