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On 03/06/2012 02:08 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> on my HP625 I run a bleeding edge Gentoo (kernel 3.3-rc6). |
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> If the notebook is connected by an ethernet cable, the net comes up |
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> just fine. |
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> If I disconnect it from ethernet and start net.wlan0, the WLAN comes |
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> up just fine. |
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> BUT, if it's connect to ethernet, and net.eth0 has been started, the |
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> kernel crashes badly (i.e. no SysRq anymore) if I start net.wlan0 in |
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> addition. |
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> Is this a configuration error by me or a kernel bug. The WLAN card is |
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> a Broadcom BCM4313 with the BRCMSMAC driver. |
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Well, this is just my non-expert opinion, but I feel that any knob |
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that can be twiddled by a user should never crash the kernel, ever. |
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However, the kernel devs might agree with my wife about my opinions ;) |
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Do kernels from the stable branch also crash? |
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