b43 hang the system with "BCM4312 802.11b/g [14e4:4315]" card, on kernel 2.6.34

[Gábor Stefanik]

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 3:27 AM, Cheng Renquan <crquan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 1:29 AM, Larry Finger <Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net> wrote:
>>> Hope someone would tell me I misused something and there is a way to
>>> use the open source b43 driver;
>>
>> There are some recent changes that fix problems with b43 hanging the
>> system at load. To use them, you should get the compat-wireless package
>> from the Packman repository. If that does not fix your problem, then you
>> should try the latest kernel (2.6.35-rc3) from the wireless-testing git
>> tree. If that does not fix the problem, then let us know here, and we will
>> figure out some additional debugging steps.
>>
>> Larry
>>
>
> I have compiled master-2010-06-24 last Sat, and it really worked well till now,
>
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-testing.git
>
> See soon next release will support broadcom4312 with b43 perfectly,
> and some distribution enable it default,

Well, in the next release (2.6.35), AFAIK there will be no way to
selectively disable BCM4312 support.

>
> Thanks to our developers,
>
> --
> Cheng Renquan (程任全), from Singapore
>
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