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IronMania

Member

Registered: 2011-07-16

Posts: 9

brcmsmac crashing on login with KDE

Hi,

i have a I have a

03:00.0 [14e4:4357] Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM43225 802.11b/g/n (rev 01)

and after I logged in to kdm, my Arch freezes. KDE won't response anmyore so does no TTY.
When I reboot again, before I login, I go to the TTY

modprobe -r brcmsmac

I can login, do a

modprobe brcmsmac

and voila my Linux is running with wireless.
So I found thousends of different patches in the www, but I don't know which one is the correct one.

My next question is, how do I install these patches?

Thank you
IronMania

IronMania

Member

Registered: 2011-07-16

Posts: 9

Re: brcmsmac crashing on login with KDE

I found the solution
it was my wpa_supplicant which crashed. Cause netcfg loaded the nl80211 (i think it was this name) driver AND the WEXT driver. So I removed the nl80211 from my netcfg and it worked.