On Tue, 6 Oct 2009 8:21:21 -0400 <fre...@carolina.rr.com> wrote: > ---- "Gábor Stefanik" <netrolller...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 11:04 PM, <fre...@carolina.rr.com> wrote: > > > My system details: > > > * Compat-wireless-2009-09-30 (and also back to 9-21) > > > * Fedora Rawhide 32-bit, kernel 2.6.31.1-56.fc12.i686 > > > * Firmware 478.104 > > > * Fatal DMA error soon after heavy traffic starts > > > > > > > Try installing a proper wireless-testing kernel (not just > > compat-wireless). This issue seems to specifically affect > > 2.6.31+compat-wireless users (probably something needs to be > > backported). 2.6.32-rc1+compat-wireless shoud also work. > > Thanks! I cloned the latest wireless-testing from last night, 2.6.32-rc3 I > think. That seems to work so far, with several hundreds of MB FTP transfers > OK. Previously DMA errors would show up immediately after starting the > transfer. Still get the "NOHZ: local_softirq_pending" stuff. I will test > more transfers and a suspend/resume cycle later tonight, as Lance has > reported.
Still stable for me, ~10GB local and ISP transfers, and survives multiple suspend/resume cycles. Please let me know if I can help testing any way to get 2.6.31 + compat-wireless working. Thanks ! ........ Charlie > Any chance of finding out what needs to be fixed for 2.6.31? Fedora is about > to release F12 with a 2.6.31 kernel, and it would be great to be able to > backport a fix. I'm a git noob, but I don't see how to bisect between the > wireless-testing tree and compat-wireless. > > Lance, you wrote that if you cold boot, then 'sometimes' you can connect. > That means sometimes it *fails* after a cold boot too? Same DMA errors? > > regards, ......... Charlie > _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
