On Saturday 04 August 2007 07:12:46 Brennan Ashton wrote: > 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. >
I've seen this while testing the 4301 driver (also mac80211). I do not get it when booting into recovery mode, but is 100% reproducible when booting into X. A guess is that networkmanager is involved in it. I am also pretty sure that "Usage count" equals the number of times the driver has been reloaded. I can shut down fine when I've not reloaded the module. My specs: 2.6.23-rc1+bcm4301 driver, 4311 hardware, kubuntu feisty. _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
