Return-path: Received: from mail-ew0-f206.google.com ([209.85.219.206]:35484 "EHLO mail-ew0-f206.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752024AbZIIICi (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Sep 2009 04:02:38 -0400 Received: by ewy2 with SMTP id 2so3469652ewy.17 for ; Wed, 09 Sep 2009 01:02:40 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4AA67009.4020400@lwfinger.net> References: <20090908134732.GA1936@darkstar> <200909081638.36897.mb@bu3sch.de> <4AA67009.4020400@lwfinger.net> Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 16:02:39 +0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: b43 dma error From: Dave Young To: Larry Finger Cc: Michael Buesch , linville@tuxdriver.com, netrolller.3d@gmail.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 10:54 PM, Larry Finger wrote: > Michael Buesch wrote: >> On Tuesday 08 September 2009 15:47:32 Dave Young wrote: >>> I tested wireless-testing b43 driver, but got "Fatal DMA error" >>> then the controller keep restarting... >>> >>> Please tell what I can provide or test, Thanks. >> >> Is this a regression? If so, please bisect. > > It is something specific to his system as I don't see anything like > this. In addition, there are some users on the openSUSE forums that > have implemented the latest compat-wireless and switched away from > Broadcom wl to b43 on their LP PHY devices. So far, no complaints from > them. > > Please reboot so that we see the ssb output as well. Use the command > > dmesg | egrep "ssb|b43" > > That way we will be able to see exactly what kind of device you have > and what revisions are in it. AFAIK, the testing to date has been > limited to Rev 1 PHYs and Rev 2 radios. I use a public pc and I have no lan access for my laptop, so just hand copy something: b43-pci-bridge 0000:0c:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17 b43-pci-bridge 0000:0c:00.0: setting latency timer to 64 ssb SInics Silicon Backplane found on PCI device 0000:0c:00.0 b43-phy0: Broadcom 4312 WLAN found (core revision 15) b43-phy0 debug: Found PHY: Analog 6, Type 5, Revision 1 b43-phy0 debug: Found Radio: Manuf 0x17F, Version 0x2062, Revision 2 > > Larry > > > -- Regards dave