Re: brcm80211 hangs when disabling wireless

From: Dave Hansen
Date: Thu Dec 09 2010 - 16:54:45 EST


On Thu, 2010-12-09 at 13:43 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 01:26:50PM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote:
> > I've been getting hard hangs when I toggle the wireless on a Lenovo
> > S10-3. It happens both with the physical switch and the Fn-F5 key
> > combo. It's quite repeatable. The system is quite stable when I'm not
> > trying to disable the wireless, though.
>
> What kernel version is this?
>
> Linus's latest tree has a known bug when the wireless is suspended and
> then resumed. Broadcom is working on it but no patch is forthcoming
> yet. Perhaps this is the same issue.

Yeah, it's 2.6.37-rc5 plus a pull from:

http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ikepanhc/ideapad-laptop.git;a=summary

That could easily be it. Thanks, Greg.

-- Dave

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