Package: firmware-brcm80211 Version: 0.27 Severity: critical Tags: patch Justification: breaks the whole system
Hi, Booting the "HP Mini 5103" with the firmware-brcm80211 package installed leads to a 100% reproducible Kernel Panic. (Squeeze's 2.6.32 and experimental 2.6.36-trunk are affected). >From the http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/brcm80211 homepage, the fix is to load the module with maxcpus=1. So a simple patch would be to ship a /etc/modprobe.d/brcm80211.conf containing options brcm80211 maxcpus=1 I tested that here and it works. So, of course having said driver run on one CPU only is sub-optimal, but at least the Kernel Panic is avoided. This should make it in Squeeze IMHO. Cheers, OdyX -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101104215211.10855.5591.report...@tamino
