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  1. Bug #730972
  2. Comment #7

Comment 7 for bug 730972

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badmin (badmin) wrote : Re: IdeaPad U160 Broadcom wifi not connecting

I stumbled upon the same problem here on

Linux sat4 2.6.38-8-generic #41-Ubuntu SMP Tue Apr 5 19:30:49 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

As said in #4 system immediately freezes when trying to access (iwlist scan, activate in KDE network manager, ...) the Wifi device with brcm80211 loaded.

In the case of Broadcom STA I figured out that according to http://www.broadcom.com/docs/linux_sta/README.txt the driver itself might not have support for rfkill in kernel 2.6.38? I'm unable to rfkill unblock the device due to its "Hard blocked: yes" status as said in #1.

I wonder why it worked in Ubuntu 10.10, the Broadcom STA release version there was 5.60.48.36 too, but this release had no support for Kernel > 2.6.32.