On 03/06/2012 02:08 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > on my HP625 I run a bleeding edge Gentoo (kernel 3.3-rc6). > > If the notebook is connected by an ethernet cable, the net comes up > just fine. > > If I disconnect it from ethernet and start net.wlan0, the WLAN comes > up just fine. > > BUT, if it's connect to ethernet, and net.eth0 has been started, the > kernel crashes badly (i.e. no SysRq anymore) if I start net.wlan0 in > addition. > > Is this a configuration error by me or a kernel bug. The WLAN card is > a Broadcom BCM4313 with the BRCMSMAC driver.
Well, this is just my non-expert opinion, but I feel that any knob that can be twiddled by a user should never crash the kernel, ever. However, the kernel devs might agree with my wife about my opinions ;) Do kernels from the stable branch also crash?
