[Workaround-ed] Fedora 11: power-on the Broadcom BCM4312 WiFi causes kernel panic with system freeze after some delay

[Athmane Madjoudj]

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 6:03 PM, Athmane Madjoudj <athmanem at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I have Fedora 11 i386 with latest update, my system freezes after some
> delay (about 3mn) with kernel panic, i have a HP Compaq 6730s
> (freedos) with Broadcom BCM4312, i get the driver and firmware from
> RPMFusion repo
>
> kmod-wl-5.10.91.9-4.fc11.3.i586
> broadcom-wl-5.10.91.9
>
> When i power-off the wifi (from laptop button) the problem doesn't raise.
>
> NB:
> Before, i didn't have this problem on Fedora 10
>
> Best regards.
>
> --
> Athmane Madjoudj
>

The problem appear to be a driver bug, since when i reconfigured my
router with WEP (it was WPA2) everything is stable, no freezes or
kernel panics.


-- 
Athmane Madjoudj