[aur-general] [broadcom-wl] kernel panic

[Dave Reisner]

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