Public bug reported:
The new wl driver(Broadcom STA) randomly causes my Dell Inspiron E1505
to experience kernel panics. I haven't been able to get a picture of the
kernel panic though. The kernel panic happens randomly, sometimes even
during bootup.
The reason why I know its from the wl driver is because, I was using the
b43 driver back on hardy. When the new broadcom driver was released, I
manually compiled it and installed it. The driver kept randomly causing
kernel panics on my system. When I blacklisted the driver and reverted
back to b43, no more kernel panics. I wiped my disk down and installed
intrepid and set my system to use the new wl driver again. The kernel
panics started all over again. When I changed to the b43 driver, the
kernel panics disappeared.
The system can sometimes run for 4/5 days before experiencing a kernel
panic and at other times, I can get about 5 kernel panics in a day. I
googled around and found a few people on both the ubuntu and debian
forums having the same problem with different systems and different
broadcom cards but same driver.
** Affects: linux-restricted-modules (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Broadcom STA/wl driver causes random kernel panics
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/292450
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