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Kernel crash when bcmwl is installed via jockey.

Bug #423479 reported by Rafael Belmonte on 2009-09-03

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #448753: System hangs when I use jockey for first time to enable "wl" module. Edit Remove

This bug affects 6 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Jockey	New	Undecided	Unassigned
	linux (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Tested in Kubuntu and Ubuntu 9.10 2009/09/03 snapshot.
Jockey offer to install Broadcom STA driver, which is in package bcmwl-kernel-source, when user proceed to install it, in any step during the process installation, Linux kernel crash.
After rebooting computer, Broadcom wl module loads well and Broadcom wireless device is working well.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
AudioDevicesInUse:
USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
/dev/snd/controlC0: rafael 3533 F.... pulseaudio
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No existe el fichero ó directorio
Card0.Amixer.info:
Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xfc200000 irq 22'
   Mixer name : 'Realtek ALC268'
   Components : 'HDA:10ec0268,10250135,00100003 HDA:11c11040,10250100,00100200'
   Controls : 21
   Simple ctrls : 12
Date: Thu Sep 3 03:30:56 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
HibernationDevice: RESUME=/dev/sda3
IwConfig:
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

pan0 no wireless extensions.
MachineType: Acer Aspire 2920
Package: linux-image-2.6.31-9-generic 2.6.31-9.29
PccardctlIdent:

PccardctlStatus:

ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-9-generic root=UUID=0b05975c-625c-4653-af06-6d5e05bac82b ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
LANG=es_ES.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-9.29-generic
RelatedPackageVersions:
linux-backports-modules-2.6.31-9-generic N/A
linux-firmware 1.16
SourcePackage: linux
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-9-generic x86_64
dmi.bios.date: 02/14/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: Phoenix Technologies LTD
dmi.bios.version: V1.13
dmi.board.name: Calado
dmi.board.vendor: Acer
dmi.board.version: Rev
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: None
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Acer
dmi.chassis.version: N/A
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnPhoenixTechnologiesLTD:bvrV1.13:bd02/14/2008:svnAcer:pnAspire2920:pvr0100:rvnAcer:rnCalado:rvrRev:cvnAcer:ct10:cvrN/A:
dmi.product.name: Aspire 2920
dmi.product.version: 0100
dmi.sys.vendor: Acer

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Rafael Belmonte (eaglescreen) wrote on 2009-09-03:

AlsaDevices.txt Edit (463 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
AplayDevices.txt Edit (273 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ArecordDevices.txt Edit (270 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
BootDmesg.txt Edit (44.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Card0.Amixer.values.txt Edit (2.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Card0.Codecs.codec.0.txt Edit (7.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Card0.Codecs.codec.1.txt Edit (141 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
CurrentDmesg.txt Edit (1004 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (1.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lspci.txt Edit (12.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lsusb.txt Edit (725 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
PciMultimedia.txt Edit (605 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcCpuinfo.txt Edit (1.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcInterrupts.txt Edit (1.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcModules.txt Edit (2.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
RfKill.txt Edit (186 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UdevDb.txt Edit (96.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UdevLog.txt Edit (200.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
WifiSyslog.txt Edit (157.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Michał Gołębiowski-Owczarek (mgol) wrote on 2009-10-24:

Confirmed on my Dell Latitude E6500. After the installation system hung; after rebooting I have wireless working.

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Robin.He (hechu) wrote on 2009-10-30:

Confirmed on my dell vostro 1400. After the the system rebooting, my wireless can connect to AP correct, and it works very well. Run the 'jockey-gtk', it shows the Broadcom STA wireless driver was installed successfully and active.