[Workaround-ed] Fedora 11: power-on the Broadcom BCM4312 WiFi causes kernel panic with system freeze after some delay

[John W. Linville]

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 07:54:02PM +0100, Athmane Madjoudj wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 6:03 PM, Athmane Madjoudj <athmanem at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I have Fedora 11 i386 with latest update, my system freezes after some
> > delay (about 3mn) with kernel panic, i have a HP Compaq 6730s
> > (freedos) with Broadcom BCM4312, i get the driver and firmware from
> > RPMFusion repo
> >
> > kmod-wl-5.10.91.9-4.fc11.3.i586
> > broadcom-wl-5.10.91.9
> >
> > When i power-off the wifi (from laptop button) the problem doesn't raise.
> >
> > NB:
> > Before, i didn't have this problem on Fedora 10
> >
> > Best regards.
> >
> > --
> > Athmane Madjoudj
> >
> 
> The problem appear to be a driver bug, since when i reconfigured my
> router with WEP (it was WPA2) everything is stable, no freezes or
> kernel panics.

Good luck getting Broadcom to fix it...

Hopefully with a 2.6.31 or later kernel your BCM4312 device will work
without needing to use the "wl" driver.

John
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