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Bug#602444: firmware-brcm80211: Kernel Panic on "iwlist scan"



On Fri, 2010-11-05 at 10:23 +0100, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote:
> tags 602444 -patch 
> thanks 
> 
> Hi Ben, and thanks for your answer,
> 
> Le jeudi 4 novembre 2010 23:37:48 Ben Hutchings, vous avez écrit :
> > On Thu, 2010-11-04 at 22:52 +0100, Didier Raboud wrote:
> > > Package: firmware-brcm80211
> > 
> > What has this got to do with the firmware?
> 
> The observable facts I could get is that:
> 
> * the boot completes when the package is not installed

True, but only because the driver fails to initialise.

[...]
> So my guess is that Network-Manager uses the driver, eventually triggering a 
> scan and then kernel oopses at that moment, leading to a non-completed boot. 
> Would you need more information ? Of what sort ?
[...]

Please use a serial console or netconsole to provide the 'oops' message.

There have been a huge number of cleanups and other fixes to this driver
since the initial release into staging, which I'll apply to our package.
I hope these will fix this bug.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.

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