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Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2009 13:26:59 -0500
From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
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Subject: Re: b43 dma error
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Michael Buesch wrote:
> 
> This won't help. The DMA engine reports a descriptor error. That means the device
> was unable to fetch the control data via DMA. Most of the time this indicates
> a bug/failure/quirk in the platform DMA implementation.

I can confirm that mine still works on x86_64 with firmware 410.

I have a spare partition that I will use to load an i386 version of
openSUSE 11.2 M6. That comes with a 2.6.31 kernel and it will be easy
to implement compat-wireless.

Larry