From: "Arend van Spriel" <arend@broadcom.com>
To: "Brett Rudley" <brudley@broadcom.com>,
"Francis Moreau" <francis.moro@gmail.com>
Cc: "gregkh@suse.de" <gregkh@suse.de>,
"linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: brcm80211: the system freezes if booted with laptop wifi switch to OFF
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 08:56:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <op.vryqz6qt3ri7v4@arend-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinhThfS587rkX4y1UbJLQzQKEWGfrFArUVGD3Ew@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, 05 Mar 2011 18:11:20 +0100, Francis Moreau
<francis.moro@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm currently running 2.6.38-rc6, and if I boot with my WIFI switch
> set to off position, the system freezes entirely when bringing up the
> wlan0 interface.
>
Hi Francis,
Some time ago we (broadcom) submitted a patch for rfkill functionality
(ie. wifi switch) to staging-2.6 repository. I looked up the tagged
version you are referring to in the linux-next repository and it seems
that the patch I mentioned is not included in there.
>
> There's no trace so I don't really know how I can help to debug this
> further.
>
> Thanks
Regards,
Arend van Spriel
--
"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the
human
mind to correlate all its contents." - "The Call of Cthulhu"
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-07 7:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-05 17:11 brcm80211: the system freezes if booted with laptop wifi switch to OFF Francis Moreau
2011-03-07 7:56 ` Arend van Spriel [this message]
2011-03-07 11:33 ` Francis Moreau
2011-03-07 13:54 ` Arend van Spriel
2011-03-07 17:29 ` Francis Moreau
2011-03-07 18:25 ` Arend van Spriel
2011-03-07 22:27 ` Francis Moreau
2011-03-09 9:03 ` Arend van Spriel
2011-03-09 16:00 ` Greg KH
2011-03-09 17:41 ` Arend van Spriel
2011-03-09 18:02 ` Francis Moreau
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