On Friday 07 April 2006 18:59, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've just tried the version of the driver included in 2.6.17-rc1 on an
> x86_64 box (Asus L5D) with a built-in PCI BCM4306 adapter (Broadcom
> Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03)), and
> unfortunately it doesn't seem to work.
>
> The driver loads and seems to initialize the adapter, but that's all,
> apparently.
>
> First, I compiled the driver with DMA and PIO support, but it hanged my box
> solid when I tried "iwconfig eth1 essid on" on it.  On the next boot I
> noticed it caused the following messages to appear in dmesg:
>
> nommu_map_single: overflow 58ee7010+2404 of device mask 3fffffff
> nommu_map_single: overflow 53669010+2404 of device mask 3fffffff
> nommu_map_single: overflow 50180010+2404 of device mask 3fffffff

You should probably report that to the x86_64 people.

> and so on, down to 455aa010.  Then I thought the adapter might be unable
> to DMA for some reason and compiled it with PIO support only.  It did not
> hang the box any more, but I couldn't make it work.

PIO does not work, yet. Give me some other few weeks, please.

-- 
Greetings Michael.
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