From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NvA2V-00086j-KC for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 26 Mar 2010 13:57:31 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 41CF9E0929; Fri, 26 Mar 2010 13:57:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bw0-f219.google.com (mail-bw0-f219.google.com [209.85.218.219]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E70F2E0929 for ; Fri, 26 Mar 2010 13:57:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz19 with SMTP id 19so203718bwz.26 for ; Fri, 26 Mar 2010 06:57:19 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:received:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=3f6xXhkO5xitURc1hY+NLiebsuWbwPcDceNBlbMQAKY=; b=MU5glEIWxriIzkFWvH8kkOD0l/ECflNYz7mw1W6OMqZTLafo6dc4R8sO2QpmuE6ais 7Icik/KpsnMw804XEQmn+WY7agCL5Rq4i4yzuerPo7bXBS8WAopBvexFpkDYFTE7Ir8B StJ87DNd5y6Y42P3ASj7ZjmPNjjbYQw/wA50c= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=muRTbrLkMrcLMMokHOxrZLSbQesy0njNVMTqUpzKGcELAg1BOcPq/zyvgvYPfJMygv gKoa2ooRr1h9gyMv0QYsJ+enCaHaS/0dDOUddFeFA5T2sMaygZLbRWYkIhsAtCYf01Yx POQX5rjnzPIB6qHu1YCanehZXKD8IT3h88Ek0= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.113.14 with HTTP; Fri, 26 Mar 2010 06:57:19 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <358eca8f1003260653v5b97d435l7a3d9bdee87301a7@mail.gmail.com> References: <358eca8f1003260653v5b97d435l7a3d9bdee87301a7@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 13:57:19 +0000 Received: by 10.204.24.9 with SMTP id t9mr1119877bkb.150.1269611839158; Fri, 26 Mar 2010 06:57:19 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <358eca8f1003260657g38a07642h460bc3d45a9defad@mail.gmail.com> Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Dreaded broadcom BCM4312 wireless card causes DMA failures and crashes From: Mick To: gentoo-user Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 047fd149-1e8b-41b1-81e8-463bcf7bdd7a X-Archives-Hash: 5e74422583ce002ff9fe630fabcea678 On 26 March 2010 13:53, Mick 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. =A0The 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/ --=20 Regards, Mick