Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 21:35:53 +0100
From: Bastian Bittorf <bittorf@bluebottle.com>
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Subject: Re: WRT54g / b43 / mac802.11 BREAKTHROUGH
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* Bastian Bittorf <bittorf@bluebottle.com> [18.07.2012 17:43]:
> hi devs!
> 
> yesterday we had a breaktrough debugging b43 in our hackspace maschinenraum/m18[1,2]
> at weimar.freifunk.net[3,4] - since a long time our darling wrt54g suffers from a
> hanging wifi and bad performance[5], but the workaround is easy: now it's up to
> you to fix the rootcause.

[...]

another issues was found, see https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/7552#comment:69

"...under high load and have found that probably some of the silent freezes
are due to overflow of the RX DMA buffer, seems like b43 does not
handlre such a situation at all."

https://dev.openwrt.org/attachment/ticket/7552/840-b43-workaround-rx-fifo-overflow.patch

the patch is working so far, but is only a workaround.
has somebody a better code-idea?

bye, bastian