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  1. Bug #292450
  2. Comment #68

Comment 68 for bug 292450

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Peter Whittaker (pwwnow) wrote :

REGRESSION: The Broadcom patch stabilizes my internal WIFI but causes a freeze with an external WiFi NIC.

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This morning I re-installed Intrepid on my DELL 1535 and applied all updates - system is now Intrepid up-to-date as of 2009-03-23.

I followed dg's procedure (s/64/32/ in the wget and tar). Good news: Attempt to connect my WAP did NOT crash. Bad news: Could not connect to my WAP (but at least no crash).

Really bad news: System froze as soon as I plugged in my external WiFi device. The external device is a "RetailPlus+" USB adapter.

Caveat: patch rejected the hunk at line 22, but I ignored that since it is the line that covers the CVS check-in header.

Suggestions for next steps welcome.