[Bug 44911] Re: Broadcom wireless: ifconfig eth1 up result in hard-lockup
i'm Enrico from Italy and first of all sorry for my bad english i have a Laptop HP Pavilion DV8306ea with wifi of Broadcom i had installed Linux Kubuntu 6.06 with 2.6.15 kernel To install wifi i had done all but ndiswrapper -l tell me: Installed ndis drivers: bcmwl5 driver present it doesn't tell me Hardware present i think my device is not switched on and even after if i load the module on kernel is all ok but if i go in /var/log/syslog i find he download the driver but not (as wroten in ndiswrapper installation doc): something like wlan: ndiswrapper ethernet device xx:xx:xx: but (regard my eth1 (wifi device)) i read a repetition of a line like this: localhost dhclient:DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.2555 port 67 interval 5...7...9...4...15 (and other numbers in the consequences line) what happend to my wifi? where is the problem? can someone help me to solve my problem? i have 1 gb ram and kernel 2.6.16-26-386 thx enrico -- Broadcom wireless: ifconfig eth1 up result in hard-lockup https://launchpad.net/bugs/44911 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 44911] Re: Broadcom wireless: ifconfig eth1 up result in hard-lockup
Great, verified, 15-25 does indeed fix the hang! -- Broadcom wireless: ifconfig eth1 up result in hard-lockup https://launchpad.net/bugs/44911 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 44911] Re: Broadcom wireless: ifconfig eth1 up result in hard-lockup
However after ifup eth1, starting wpa_supplicant now causes a hard lockup. Ill raise a separate bug for that. -- Broadcom wireless: ifconfig eth1 up result in hard-lockup https://launchpad.net/bugs/44911 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
