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Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2013 12:32:00 +0000
From: Michael Stolovitzsky <emestee@catnarok.net>
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Subject: Re: brcmsmac causes soft lockup in 3.12-rc1
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On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 05:33:29AM +0000, Adam Honse wrote:
> I'm having the same issues on my laptop.  Under Debian, Ubuntu, and Arch I
> had the same problem in every kernel release I tried brcmsmac on in that the
> range is very poor.  My router in the basement was intermittent upstairs in
> the room directly above the router, and got barely enough signal to work
> reliably sitting next to it.  I just switched the machine back to Ubuntu
> (GNOME Remix) today to test the Radeon drivers but upon installing 3.12 I'm
> getting the same soft-lockup bug, crashes the whole PC before I can log in
> and even see what's going on.  The closed source Broadcom STA driver works
> fine on supported kernels.
> 

Please post lspci -vnn, I wanna see if the hardware is identical.