Brodacom STA driver causes bugs in other apps

[Ronnie Smith]

After installing 8.10 Ibex I noticed some quirks only evident during wireless connection.

I encountered problems after enabling the Broadcom wireless STA driver. It loaded and connected to my network easily; however, I immediately noticed problems and system quirks that did not exist with the wired connection.

Internet, admin applications, and graphics programs were sluggish and locked up constantly. Force quit was used much too frequently.

Kiba Dock was affected as well; pulse titles were disabled while the STA driver was activated. Enabling the zoom feature caused Kiba to lock up.

I deactivated the STA driver and activated the Broadcom B43 driver.

All problems stopped. Internet speed increased dramatically. Problems with Kiba and other applications ceased.

[Michele Mangili (mangilimic)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Unfortunately we can't fix it without more information.

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[kernel-janitor (kernel-janitor)]

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