Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: bcm43xx-fwcutter
The newer versions of UBUNTU and DEBIAN allow to automatically download
and install firmware for several wireless cards using the (unmantained?)
package bcm43xx-fwcutter (instead of nsdiswrapper). Unsing this firmware
causes my laptop (ASUS A6Tc) to experience regular and severe hangs. It
also happens, less frequently, in a HP dv5000z running UBUNTU 7.10 and
only very rarely (only once actually) in a IBM Thinkpad T40 also running
UBUNTU 7.10.
The hangs happen more frequently with the 64 bit versions of the
distributions (only tested on the ASUS machine). It also appears that
the problem is more severe with the newer kernels [for instance, I never
observed this problem with DEBIAN Etch (64 bit) in the ASUS laptop or
with UBUNTU 7.04 (32 bit) in the IBM laptop].
I am currently running Mandriva 2008 (32 bit) and I installed the
wireless firmware from the Windows partition with nsdiswrapper in the
ASUS computer (the card is a BCM4318). The hangs happen only very rarely
and are not severe (they last for 2 or three seconds and so I do not
need to reset the computer as before).
In view of these results, I am going to try Ubuntu 7.10 (64 bit)
installing the firmware from the Windows partition with nsdiswrapper and
let's see what happens (fingers crossed).
** Affects: bcm43xx-fwcutter (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Installing RESTRICTED DRIVERS (bcm43xx-fwcutter) makes my system instable
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/160084
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