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dragonn

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Registered: 2012-05-04

Posts: 65

brcmsmac - boot freezes when wi-fi is off

I am having witch my wi-fi card BCM4313 running on the brcmsmac driver on the latest Arch kernel 3.4.4-3-ARCH. When wi-fi is off (my Toshiba A660 have a hardware button to control the state of wi-fi card) the boot process stuck after starting wicd, when wi-fi is on at boot everything works fine. And if I turn off the wi-fi while the system is already booted I don't get any problems, the system works fine (I tried to search networks - no freezers). It is possible to fix it witch out changing the driver (I don't like wl driver)? As I remember this happens sinc 3.2 kernel, on previous it works fine but downgrading the kernel isn't a solution. An idea?

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

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Re: brcmsmac - boot freezes when wi-fi is off

Don't try to start wicd when your wifi is turned off.

dragonn

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Registered: 2012-05-04

Posts: 65

Re: brcmsmac - boot freezes when wi-fi is off

Not really a solution for my problem - wicd deamon starts automatic at boot, and I don't wan change this.