Here for documentation the errors of the 6.20 drivers below precise. A "no change backport" from raring was installed. Please keep in mind that an equivalent package already landed in precise-updates which will break the functionality also in this precise. *-network description: Network controller product: BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY vendor: Broadcom Corporation physical id: 0 bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0 version: 01 width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list configuration: driver=b43-pci-bridge latency=0 resources: irq:17 memory:56100000-56103fff apt-cache policy bcmwl-kernel-source bcmwl-kernel-source: Installed: 6.20.155.1+bdcom-0ubuntu6~precise1~ppa1 Candidate: 6.20.155.1+bdcom-0ubuntu6~precise1~ppa1 Version table: *** 6.20.155.1+bdcom-0ubuntu6~precise1~ppa1 0 500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/dirk-computer42/c42-backport/ubuntu/ precise/main i386 Apr 15 13:15:10 tai kernel: [ 295.908018] Pid: 4294, comm: iwconfig Tainted: PF O 3.8.0-18-generic #28~precise1-Ubuntu LENOVO 2957 /Mariana2 Apr 15 13:15:10 tai kernel: [ 295.908018] EIP: 0060:[] EFLAGS: 00010202 CPU: 1 Apr 15 13:15:10 tai kernel: [ 295.908018] EIP is at wireless_process_ioctl.constprop.4+0x5e/0x1a0 Apr 15 13:15:10 tai kernel: [ 295.908018] EAX: 00000000 EBX: f6182000 ECX: 00000000 EDX: 000000c8 Apr 15 13:15:10 tai kernel: [ 295.908018] ESI: 00008b09 EDI: f368df14 EBP: f368dee0 ESP: f368dec8 Apr 15 13:15:10 tai kernel: [ 295.908018] DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 00e0 SS: 0068 Apr 15 13:15:10 tai kernel: [ 295.908018] CR0: 80050033 CR2: 000002f0 CR3: 2d123000 CR4: 000007f0 Apr 15 13:15:10 tai kernel: [ 295.908018] DR0: 00000000 DR1: 00000000 DR2: 00000000 DR3: 00000000 Apr 15 13:15:10 tai kernel: [ 295.908018] DR6: ffff0ff0 DR7: 00000400 Apr 15 13:15:10 tai kernel: [ 295.908018] Process iwconfig (pid: 4294, ti=f368c000 task=f61be680 task.ti=f368c000) Apr 15 13:15:10 tai kernel: [ 295.908018] Stack: Apr 15 13:15:10 tai kernel: [ 295.908018] f368ded8 c1629e58 00008b09 00008b09 ffffffe7 f368df14 f368df00 c15fd80b Apr 15 13:15:10 tai kernel: [ 295.908018] f368def0 c1919280 00008b09 00008b09 ffffffe7 c1919280 f368df44 c154101e Apr 15 13:15:10 tai kernel: [ 295.908018] bfb6c06c 00000000 bfb6c06c 6e616c77 00000030 00000000 00000000 f918cb73 Apr 15 13:15:10 tai kernel: [ 295.908018] Call Trace: Apr 15 13:15:10 tai kernel: [ 295.908018] [] ? mutex_lock+0x18/0x40 Apr 15 13:15:10 tai kernel: [ 295.908018] [] wext_handle_ioctl+0x5b/0xd0 Apr 15 13:15:10 tai kernel: [ 295.908018] [] dev_ioctl+0xbe/0x290 Apr 15 13:15:10 tai kernel: [ 295.908018] [] ? wl_ioctl+0x53/0x1b0 [wl] Apr 15 13:15:10 tai kernel: [ 295.908018] [] sock_ioctl+0x1ab/0x290 Apr 15 13:15:10 tai kernel: [ 295.908018] [] ? move_addr_to_user+0xb0/0xb0 Apr 15 13:15:10 tai kernel: [ 295.908018] [] do_vfs_ioctl+0x7f/0x2f0 Apr 15 13:15:10 tai kernel: [ 295.908018] [] ? do_debug+0x180/0x180 Apr 15 13:15:10 tai kernel: [ 295.908018] [] ? fpu_finit+0x55/0x70 Apr 15 13:15:10 tai kernel: [ 295.908018] [] sys_ioctl+0x70/0x80 Apr 15 13:15:10 tai kernel: [ 295.908018] [] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x28 Apr 15 13:15:10 tai kernel: [ 295.908018] Code: 0f 84 af 00 00 00 8b 53 2c b8 ed ff ff ff 83 e2 02 74 5e 8b 93 70 01 00 00 31 c9 8b 83 d8 00 00 00 85 d2 74 0c 8b 12 85 d2 74 06 <8b> 8a 28 02 00 00 85 c0 0f 84 e4 00 00 00 0f b7 48 04 8d 96 00 Apr 15 13:15:10 tai kernel: [ 295.908018] EIP: [] wireless_process_ioctl.constprop.4+0x5e/0x1a0 SS:ESP 0068:f368dec8 Apr 15 13:15:10 tai kernel: [ 295.908018] CR2: 00000000000002f0 Apr 15 13:15:10 tai kernel: [ 296.154163] ---[ end trace daf76ea4b179d8bb ]---