brcmf is buggy/broken, alternatives?

[slycat]

Broadcom's support for the brcmf wireless devices is terrible. For over a year I have been constantly losing connecting (or eventually have a kernel panic) on both Cubox-i and RPi.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'Apr 04 00:08:21 AtomAntBox kernel: brcmfmac: brcmf_sdio_bus_txdata: out of bus->txq !!!
Apr 04 00:08:34 AtomAntBox kernel: brcmfmac: brcmf_cfg80211_escan: Connecting: status (3)
Apr 04 00:08:34 AtomAntBox kernel: brcmfmac: brcmf_cfg80211_scan: scan error (-11)
##above repeats for 15 minutes, momentary reconnect to router for 2 minutes then continues with..
Apr 04 00:25:05 AtomAntBox kernel: brcmfmac: send_key_to_dongle: wsec_key error (-52)
Apr 04 00:25:05 AtomAntBox kernel: cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain
Apr 04 00:25:07 AtomAntBox kernel: brcmfmac: brcmf_do_escan: error (-52)
Apr 04 00:25:07 AtomAntBox kernel: brcmfmac: brcmf_cfg80211_scan: scan error (-52)
Apr 04 00:25:10 AtomAntBox kernel: brcmfmac: brcmf_do_escan: error (-52)
Apr 04 00:25:10 AtomAntBox kernel: brcmfmac: brcmf_cfg80211_scan: scan error (-52)')

Has anybody here made the switch to a wifi dongle? What would I need to do to disable brcmf from ever initializing and just use a dongle? Can I use a usb hub with the dongle (cubox has only two usb ports)?

[jones30]

looking for the same information and searching on net