On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 18:33 -0300, Pedro Bulach Gapski wrote: > I have blacklisted the brcm80211 module and worked all day without a problem. > > I googled to http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/brcm80211, > where it is stated that > "43224/5 has a locking issue, stable with maxcpus=1, can crash > otherwise after random period." > which pretty much matches my case. > > Thanks for the advice, Ben. I've filed a bug on the broadcom-sta package, suggesting that it could provide a configuration file to blacklist brcm80211. However, I think we should continue to provide brcm80211 in the kernel image packages as there is some value in a free driver that doesn't have to be built by the user. We can apply upstream fixes for the locking bugs later. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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