It is pretty clear that blacklisting 'bcma' is still necessary, though, if one wants to use the brcmsmac driver without issues. The 'wlan0' interface was still created though, so I'm guessing that this bug has been fixed upstream. Please carefully read all instructions on this website.Īnd the output of 'lsmod' (grepped for relevant lines only): b43-phy0 ERROR: You must go to and download the correct firmware for this driver version.
b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file 'b43-open/ucode16_mimo.fw' not found b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file 'b43/ucode16_mimo.fw' not found
b43-phy0: Broadcom 43224 WLAN found (core revision 23) brcmsmac: module is from the staging directory, the quality is unknown, you have been warned. brcmutil: module is from the staging directory, the quality is unknown, you have been warned. bcma: Core 2 found: PCIe (manuf 0x4BF, id 0x820, rev 0x0F, class 0x0) The ifup command never finishes and seems to block all other network operations on the system. bcma: Core 1 found: IEEE 802.11 (manuf 0x4BF, id 0x812, rev 0x17, class 0x0) 0008844: b43: Bringing up the wifi interface causes system hangs regression Description: Bringing up the wifi interface (wlan0) with a Broadcom BCM4318 results in a system hang since kernel-plus 3.10.0-229.1.2. bcma: Core 0 found: ChipCommon (manuf 0x4BF, id 0x800, rev 0x22, class 0x0) bcma-pci-bridge 0000:03:00.0: setting latency timer to 64 Since linux 3.1.0-4 was moved to today, I decided to comment out 'blacklist bcma' in my /etc/modprobe.d/nf and regenerated the initramfs to see if this may have been fixed in Linux 3.1.Īfter rebooting, I noticed the following lines in dmesg:
