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  1. Bug #863799
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Comment 3 for bug 863799

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Brian Teague (bteague) wrote : Re: Connect/Reliability problems when I create a WiFi Ad-Hoc network on Oneiric

Thanks to an ArchLinux forum thread, I discovered that the issue is with multiple drivers trying to manage the Broadcom chip. I'm using the restricted "wl" driver, but the opensource drivers load too.

To fix this, I added the following three lines to the bottom of /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf -

blacklist bcma
blacklist brcmsmac
blacklist brcmutil

I'm not familiar with how the restricted drivers are distributed in Ubuntu - it seems that the long-term fix is to blacklist the opensource drivers when the restricted one is enabled.