3 system freezes after upgrading to 2.6.32-23: advice needed
Hello list,
This morning I have upgraded my notebook from kernel
linux-image-2.6.32-5-686-bigmem from 2.6.32-21 to 2.6.32-23.
During the day I have had 3 system freezes: blank screen, no keyboard
lights, no remote ssh, no alt+sysrq. All the 3 freezes seem to have
happened at moments of system inactivity. Notable was that the wifi
light was turned off on all 3 freezes, despite the fact wifi was on
previously.
This notebook is a Dell Vostro and has a Broadcom Corporation
BCM43224, and I am using the broadcom-sta driver from sid. In the logs
there is a
"brcm80211: module is from the staging directory, the quality is
unknown, you have been warned."
In the changelog I see there was activity in this driver, and I had to
manually download its firmware
(http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=597034#10), so this
is my first suspect.
Since there is no other clue in the logs, I turn to this list for
advice on how to proceed on this issue.
regards,
Pedro
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