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

[Vitor Eiji Justus Sakaguti]

On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 12:52 AM, Dave Reisner <d at falconindy.com> wrote:
> 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".

Kind of what I said (less verbosely).

> 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.

It does for me.

> No need to freak out.

My point exactly.

Cheers