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". 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. No need to freak out. d