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 1OeZ4D-0006Io-Fj for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:47:00 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 86F75E0894; Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:45:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ms12.ucs.fsu.edu (ms12.ucs.fsu.edu [146.201.3.242]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62709E088B for ; Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:45:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mailrelay3.fsu.edu (mailrelay3.fsu.edu [128.186.6.49]) by ms12.ucs.fsu.edu (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id o6TJje8K027344 for ; Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:45:40 -0400 Received: from smtp1.fsu.edu (smtp1.fsu.edu [128.186.6.57]) by mailrelay3.fsu.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o6TJjebU012725 for ; Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:45:40 -0400 Received: from [128.186.98.33] (sundog.met.fsu.edu [128.186.98.33]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp1.fsu.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54BFF138314 for ; Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:45:40 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4C51DA63.2050905@fsu.edu> Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:45:39 -0400 From: kelly hirai User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.4) Gecko/20100714 Lightning/1.0b2pre Thunderbird/3.1 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Dreaded broadcom BCM4312 wireless card causes DMA failures and crashes References: <358eca8f1003260653v5b97d435l7a3d9bdee87301a7@mail.gmail.com> <358eca8f1003260657g38a07642h460bc3d45a9defad@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <358eca8f1003260657g38a07642h460bc3d45a9defad@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10432:5.0.10011,1.0.148,0.0.0000 definitions=2010-07-29_08:2010-07-29,2010-07-29,1970-01-01 signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=5.0.0-1005130000 definitions=main-1007290144 X-Archives-Salt: 548c48e9-e68a-49eb-8abb-e13e1b22cd31 X-Archives-Hash: a809e57dd1d4c27f1a0704cdbe8dc35d On 03/26/10 09:57, Mick wrote: > 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. 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?