I am running Intrepid Ibex and I suspect I have the same problem as well, although I have no proof as studying the system logs after the crashes did not give me any clues.
I installed the driver through GNOME Control Centre > Hardware Drivers > select 'Broadcom STA Driver' > click 'Activate' button at bottom right. I can use my home wireless without any problems (which is protected by WPA2). But when I tried to log on to my University wireless network, which uses the settings in Ubuntu similar to these here http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/its/wireless/jrswin.htm the Network Manager took a very long time to attempt to log on and then crashed (without logging on). The whole system froze with no responses from keyboard and trackpad. I tried Ctrl + Alt + F1 to F8, but no response either and had to do a hard reboot (several times). I did not have this problem with Hardy, but maybe I was using the other B43 open source driver at that time. The crash occured everytime when I tried to log on to my University wireless (ie. consistently reproducible). lspci told me my wireless card is Broadcom BCM4312 which comes with Dell Inspiron 1525 I bought in July 2008. -- Broadcom STA/wl driver causes random kernel panics https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/292450 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
