Broadcom STA wireless driver package installation crashes the system

[bingbangboum]

Binary package hint: bcmwl-kernel-source

Hello,

Wireless card:Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g (rev 01)
After the Ubuntu 9.10 installation, while i installed the proprietary driver by the Hardware drivers window, my system crashes, X-server freezes and i had to reboot my laptop.
At this moment i used firefox on ubuntu website by the Ethernet connection.
However the driver has been installed.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: b64fb63cf2f469223359e854d75916ca
CheckboxSystem: d00f84de8a555815fa1c4660280da308
Date: Fri Oct 30 11:47:43 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/yelp
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx wl
Package: yelp 2.28.0-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: yelp
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64

[Matthew Caron (matt-mattcaron)]

I saw this on a Dell Mini 9 as well (BCM4312)

[Ingolf Blanken (ingolf)]

I had this on a Dell M1330 (BCM4328)

[Brian R (brian-rardin-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

Same thing Dell Latitude D630 (BCM4311). I switched back to the B43 driver and have yet to have a crash since.

Does this only affect amd64 or is anyone using i386 with the same crash?

[Jarrod Ward (gerrard777345)]

I am having this problem with my Inspiron 1545 Laptop. Even though it is Linux Mint 8 RC1, it is doing the same thing as Ubuntu 9.10 when I first got it.

[Mitko B. (mitko)]

The same on Dell Studio 1555

[Odd Tullberg (odd-tullberg)]

I have a dell studio hybrid (x386) and been running 8.10 with no problems. Upgraded to 9.10 and tried to install the broadcom driver. It hung the system had to use the big button. Then the system was broken .. could not boot! I am very very sad over this performance of ubuntu system???

[Odd Tullberg (odd-tullberg)]

Managed to boot in recovery mode and choose Repair broken packages ... back on track .. but still a little nervous..

[Austin Dempewolff (adempewolff)]

I'm not sure if I have the same problem, as my system did not crash immediately after enabling the sta driver. Rather, it appears to work perfectly. However I have been having frequent kernel panics, which I am thinking more and more are relating the the wireless driver, as they seem to happen only when using wireless and most frequently during periods of high Internet access (downloading large files, etc.). As the bcmwl module is the only thing that is in kernel-space and would be affected by higher periods of internet use. Its definitely a ghost of a bug I've been chasing, but it has affected multiple installations of Karmic on this laptop (Dell Latitude D630). I'm going to try compiling the driver myself as it looks like broadcom released a new version on 9/17 which may have not made it into Karmic...

[Matthew Caron (matt-mattcaron)]

This worked on the same Mini 9 doing an install of 10.04

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu. Ubuntu 9.10 reached EOL on April 30, 2011.
Please see this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

Please either a) upgrade or b) provide logs of the crash so that we can identify the problem. Likely places where it would be logged are:
  /var/log/syslog
  /var/log/kern.log

Please feel free to report any other bugs you may find.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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