On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 2:35 AM, Gaetan Bisson <[email protected]> wrote: > [2011-10-24 01:44:50 -0200] Vitor Eiji Justus Sakaguti: >> On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 12:52 AM, Dave Reisner <[email protected]> wrote: >> > On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 12:45:04AM -0200, Vitor Eiji Justus Sakaguti wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> >> >> Just a heads up to all users of broadcom-wl: a lot of people (myself >> >> included) have been reporting kernel panics at boot time after upgrade >> >> to current version, so if you're planing to upgrade, be sure to have a >> >> live cd around to chroot into your system. >> >> There are still no known workarounds other than blacklisting the wl >> >> module (thus disabling wireless board) or removing the package. >> >> >> >> [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=19514 >> >> >> >> Good luck! >> >> Vitor >> > >> > Or just blacklist the module from the kernel cmdline via >> > "modprobe.blacklist=wl". >> >> Kind of what I said (less verbosely). > > No. Dave's point is that you don't need a LiveCD: you can just add > "modprobe.blacklist=wl" as a parameter to your kernel in the boot > loader.
If you look at the comments, you'll see that blacklisting didn't work for hermes14, so I thought other people might run into this problem as well. Better safe than sorry :) But thanks for taking the time to look at this, everyone!
