Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 14:23:04 -0800
From: "Henry Ptasinski" <henryp@broadcom.com>
To: "Jamie Kitson" <jamie@kitten-x.com>
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	"Henry Ptasinski" <henryp@broadcom.com>, rvossen@broadcom.com
Subject: Re: Kernel Panic wlc_mac80211.c Line 6093
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On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 01:47:37PM -0800, Jamie Kitson wrote:
> > too quote a gremlin: feed me (with any debug experiences you may have).
> 
> Well for some reason when I got home today my machine crashed every
> time it was bringing the wireless interface up until I disabled the
> brcm80211 module, even without the noapic option. The crash looks a
> little different:
> 
> http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5216/5385766744_632eb67670_b.jpg
> 
> Did you notice that someone on that Arch thread suggested that it
> might be solved by using n mode only on the wireless router?
> 
> https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=882237#p882237

Thanks, a little more data to work with.

Roland has a lead on a locking issue that will hopefully resolve the MP
crashes.  However, it does look like there are a couple different issues, and
testing mixed vs. 11n-only networks may shed some more light on the other
issue.

- Henry