From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Dreaded broadcom BCM4312 wireless card causes DMA failures and crashes
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:25:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201007292225.55041.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C51DA63.2050905@fsu.edu>
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On Thursday 29 July 2010 20:45:39 kelly hirai wrote:
> On 03/26/10 09:57, Mick wrote:
> > On 26 March 2010 13:53, Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Has anyone managed to get BCM4312, 802.11b/g (pcie) Device: pci
> >> 0x4315, going with the b43 module?
> >>
> >> b43-phy0 ERROR: Fatal DMA error: 0x00000400, 0x00000000, 0x00000000,
> >> 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000
> >> b43-phy0: Controller RESET (DMA error) ...
> >> b43-phy0: Loading firmware version 410.2160 (2007-05-26 15:32:10)
> >> b43-phy0: Controller restarted
> >> b43-phy0 ERROR: Fatal DMA error: 0x00000400, 0x00000000, 0x00000000,
> >> 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000
> >>
> >> I've unmasked and am using the latest firmware in portage and the b43
> >> module from the gentoo-sources-2.6.32-r7 kernel. The card comes up,
> >> then authenticates and tries to get an IP address, but in less than a
> >> second after it gets an IP address it crashes with these recurring
> >> messages above.
> >>
> >> Is there a fix, or shall I go for the wl module by Broadcom or even
> >> give up and go for the ndiswrapper solution?
> >
> > Posted too early perhaps. There seems to be a patch coming for the
> > 2.6.33 kernels. Will have to wait I guess.
> >
> > https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/66064/
>
> im guessing here. maybe you have old firmware. did you get the "old
> firmware" warning in your kernel messages when you loaded the module?
No. It was a kernel problem. The new 2.6.34-gentoo-r1 works fine.
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Regards,
Mick
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-26 13:53 [gentoo-user] Dreaded broadcom BCM4312 wireless card causes DMA failures and crashes Mick
2010-03-26 13:57 ` [gentoo-user] " Mick
2010-07-29 19:45 ` kelly hirai
2010-07-29 21:25 ` Mick [this message]
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