As one of the people why reported some of these issues, I am going to take it upon my self to test the current b43 firmware with an ASUS WL500pv2. This uses the Broadcom 5354 SoC and has a LP-PHY with Both the stable(4.150.10.5) and experimental (4.178.10.4) firmware.
I will report back in the next couple of days. Cheers ---------------------------------------------------------- Chris Martin m: 0419812371 ---------------------------------------------------------- 2011/3/2 Rafał Miłecki <[email protected]> > W dniu 7 grudnia 2010 20:21 użytkownik Hauke Mehrtens > <[email protected]> napisał: > > On 12/07/2010 04:32 PM, Larry Finger wrote: > >> On 12/07/2010 06:28 AM, Rafał Miłecki wrote: > >>> W dniu 7 grudnia 2010 13:21 użytkownik Rafał Miłecki <[email protected]> > napisał: > >>>> Currently we tell ppl to use 4.150.10.5 for G-PHY and 4.174.64.19 for > >>>> LP-PHY on our wiki page. > >>>> > >>>> Firmware files for G-PHY differ a little between there two versions, > >>>> but did we actually get any problems reports? > >>>> > >>>> Can we drop 4.150.10.5 description? > >>> > >>> openSUSE 11.3 seems to download 4.174.64.19 only with it's script and > >>> I didn't heard about any reports. One more point for dropping > >>> 4.150.10.5? > >> > >> I pushed the patch to change openSUSE's script early in the beta testing > for > >> that release. I have heard no complaints either. I agree that 4.150.10.5 > should > >> be dropped. > > Sorry for responding so late, that bug reports scared me at first > look, I switched to sth else to forgot that case. > > > > We had serious issues with firmware version 4.174.64.19 in OpenWrt and > > switched back to the old on as the default option. This issue afftected > > mostly LP-PHY devices. > > > > See the Bug report: https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/6907 This was with > > kernel 2.6.32 and compat-wireless from round about March to May 2010. > > Stable means the old firmware version and experimental the new one in > > the bug report. > > OK, I can see there are 2 bug reports: > https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/7117 > https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/6907 > > First one #7117 is about some memory leak and "page allocation > failure" as a result. It really should have nothing to do with > firmware, I guess we just had some memory leak in b43. > > Second one #6907 is much worse... > > 1) At beginning it's about hanging router, it seems to be also (the > same?) memory leak. Probably scanning triggers it. Out of memory leads > to killing process but that resulted in router hang. No firmware > related. Not sure if it was fixed. > > 2) jbemmel reported issue with card hang (not whole router), it > happened with messages: "Channel switch to default failed" / > "Microcode not responding". It was related to not allowed access to > B43_MMIO_PHY0 register. No firmware related. Fixed by updating > http://bcm-v4.sipsolutions.net/802.11/PHY/Anacore > > 3) Now, (maybe) firmware related... > > a) jbemmel switched to 4.150.10.5 and updated b43 at the same time and > reported success. No idea what really helped. > > b) ldolse reported success when "building with the stable B43". Not > sure if he tried experimental. > > c) anup.vasudev probably tried 4.150.10.5 but reported "It still dosent > work" > > d) linchen987 tried experimental firmware only and reported success > for AP, error for STA. Didn't compare to stable firmware. > > e) zooloz tried experimental firmware reported success for few hours, > then duplicated "MAC suspend failed" messages. Didn't compare this to > stable firmware. > > f) anonymous reported "This still dosent work with the latest build > from trunk.", even after trunk witched to stable firmware as default > > g) metamatt posted some reports but he didn't give us direct hint > about firmware version. > > So... generally we know nothing :| Not a single straight report about > relation between firmware and stability. > > -- > Rafał > > _______________________________________________ > b43-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/b43-dev >
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