When the bcm43xx_mac80211 driver stops communicating, and needs to be
reset (this seems to happens when coming from strong to week to strong
signal area quickly) i have been rmmod and then modprobing it. this
works most of the time, but some times (~20%), it will lock up the
network with this error that repeats.
Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Fri Aug 3 00:55:41 2007 ...
localhost kernel: [19316.256549] unregister_netdevice: waiting for eth1 to becom
e free. Usage count = 5
usage count varies, but renders the system unusable (extremely slow,
like when localhost is not defined) until the laptop is turned off,
the system will hang during shutdown requiring a power interrupt.
This did not happen with the bcm43xx driver in 2.6.22-rc7.
Current Data
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# uname -r
2.6.23-rc1
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# lspci | grep Broadcom
03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation Dell Wireless 1390
WLAN Mini-PCI Card (rev 01)
dmesg is over filled with TKIP decrypt info, so little info is there
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# iwlist eth1 scanning
Warning: Driver for device eth1 has been compiled with version 22
of Wireless Extension, while this program supports up to version 20.
Some things may be broken...
eth1 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 00:12:17:AA:84:67
ESSID:"thishome"
Mode:Master
Channel:6
Frequency:2.437 GHz (Channel 6)
Quality=41/100 Signal level=-61 dBm Noise level=-68 dBm
Encryption key:on
IE: WPA Version 1
Group Cipher : TKIP
Pairwise Ciphers (1) : TKIP
Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
12 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s
Extra:tsf=00000298702da2c8
Cell 02 - Address: 00:18:3F:64:47:D9
ESSID:"2WIRE199"
Mode:Master
Channel:6
Frequency:2.437 GHz (Channel 6)
Quality=31/100 Signal level=-77 dBm Noise level=-68 dBm
Encryption key:on
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s
9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s
48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
Extra:tsf=000000401364c181
Cell 03 - Address: 00:03:52:C7:E3:B0
ESSID:"bbx"
Mode:Master
Channel:11
Frequency:2.462 GHz (Channel 11)
Quality=27/100 Signal level=-83 dBm Noise level=-68 dBm
Encryption key:off
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s
Extra:tsf=0000000002711d4b
--
Brennan Ashton
Bellingham, Washington
"The box said, 'Requires Windows 98 or better'. So I installed Linux"
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