While we're waiting either for the bug-fix to appear in Intrepid (or until we all upgrade to Jaunty) this is an updated quick hacky mini- HOWTO that will result in a persistent updated fixed wl driver installation (my previous mini-HOWTO only was good until next reboot):
N.B. for amd64 (change the wget and tar accordingly for i386) cd; mkdir wl_src SRC=$HOME/wl_src cd $SRC wget http://www.broadcom.com/docs/linux_sta/hybrid-portsrc-x86_64-v5_10_79_10.tar.gz tar zxvf hybrid-portsrc-x86_64-v5_10_79_10.tar.gz wget http://www.broadcom.com/docs/linux_sta/wl_iw.patch cd src/wl/sys patch < ../../../wl_iw.patch cd $SRC VER=`uname -r` make -C /lib/modules/$VER/build M=`pwd` cd /lib/linux-restricted-modules/$VER/wl tar cvf ~/wlObj_bak.tar * # backup existing mod objects in case something goes wrong for i in *; do sudo cp `find $SRC -name $i` . ; done sudo cp $SRC/lib/wlc_hybrid.o_shipped wlc_hybrid.o_shipped_x86_64 -- 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 [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
