On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 12:52 AM, Dave Reisner <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 12:45:04AM -0200, Vitor Eiji Justus Sakaguti wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Just a heads up to all users of broadcom-wl: a lot of people (myself >> included) have been reporting kernel panics at boot time after upgrade >> to current version, so if you're planing to upgrade, be sure to have a >> live cd around to chroot into your system. >> There are still no known workarounds other than blacklisting the wl >> module (thus disabling wireless board) or removing the package. >> >> [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=19514 >> >> Good luck! >> Vitor > > Or just blacklist the module from the kernel cmdline via > "modprobe.blacklist=wl".
Kind of what I said (less verbosely). > It appears to be a race condition that's > triggered when its loaded by udev during bootstrap. Loading it > afterwards (either from rc.local or manually) doesn't trigger the panic. It does for me. > No need to freak out. My point exactly. Cheers
