On 02-08-17 22:43, russianneuroman...@ya.ru wrote: > Hello! > > Sorry for late answer. > >> russianneuromancer has reported seeing a similar problem with 4.13. > >> russianneuromancer, can you check if the device you are seeing this with > also has a brcm43430 sdio wifi and if so if switching to: > >> http://jwrdegoede.danny.cz/brcm-firmware/brcmfmac43430-sdio.bin.7.45.77.0.ucode1043.2054 > >> Fixes this ? > > Judging by this error message > >> [ 7.744262] brcmfmac mmc0:0001:1: Direct firmware load for >> brcm/brcmfmac43241b4-sdio.txt failed with error -2 > > Lenovo Miix2 8 have brcm43241b4 sdio wifi. > > With brcmfmac43241b4-sdio.txt from NVRAM, as suggested here > https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/drivers/brcm80211 WiFi connection > works for me with upstream Linux 4.12.4, but doesn't work with Linux 4.13rc1 > and Linux 4.13rc3.
Yeah. There are three patches currently in wireless tree, maybe also in netdev tree, which will probably be included in 4.13-rc4 fixing the issue below. Regards, Arend > Few connection attempts with Linux 4.13rc3 looks like this: > >> [ 7.779370] usbcore: registered new interface driver brcmfmac >> [ 7.948487] brcmfmac: brcmf_c_preinit_dcmds: Firmware version = wl0: Jul >> 17 2013 07:36:07 version 6.10.197.71 (r412987) FWID 01-882d2634 >> [ 32.282374] brcmfmac: brcmf_p2p_create_p2pdev: set p2p_disc error >> [ 32.282393] brcmfmac: brcmf_cfg80211_add_iface: add iface p2p-dev-wlan0 >> type 10 failed: err=-16 >> [ 43.560596] brcmfmac: brcmf_proto_bcdc_hdrpull: wlan0: non-BCDC packet >> received, flags 0x0 >> [ 44.494422] brcmfmac: brcmf_proto_bcdc_hdrpull: wlan0: non-BCDC packet >> received, flags 0x0 >> [ 45.492956] brcmfmac: brcmf_proto_bcdc_hdrpull: wlan0: non-BCDC packet >> received, flags 0x0 >> [ 46.491317] brcmfmac: brcmf_proto_bcdc_hdrpull: wlan0: non-BCDC packet >> received, flags 0x0 >> [ 54.922652] brcmfmac: brcmf_proto_bcdc_hdrpull: wlan0: non-BCDC packet >> received, flags 0x0 >> [ 55.849565] brcmfmac: brcmf_proto_bcdc_hdrpull: wlan0: non-BCDC packet >> received, flags 0x0 >> [ 56.849437] brcmfmac: brcmf_proto_bcdc_hdrpull: wlan0: non-BCDC packet >> received, flags 0x0 >> [ 57.853150] brcmfmac: brcmf_proto_bcdc_hdrpull: wlan0: non-BCDC packet >> received, flags 0x0 >> [ 66.542999] brcmfmac: brcmf_proto_bcdc_hdrpull: wlan0: non-BCDC packet >> received, flags 0x0 >> [ 67.483115] brcmfmac: brcmf_proto_bcdc_hdrpull: wlan0: non-BCDC packet >> received, flags 0x0 >> [ 68.483434] brcmfmac: brcmf_proto_bcdc_hdrpull: wlan0: non-BCDC packet >> received, flags 0x0 > > 23.07.2017, 02:44, "Hans de Goede" <hdego...@redhat.com>: >> Hi, >> >> When upgrading my devel environment to 4.13-rc1+ I noticed that >> the brcm43430 sdio wifi on a Chuwi Hi8 plus stopped working: >> >> jul 22 14:13:23 localhost.localdomain kernel: brcmfmac: brcmf_sdio_probe: >> Loading firmware brcm/brcmfmac43430-sdio.bin for chip 0000a9a6 rev 00000001 >> jul 22 14:13:23 localhost.localdomain kernel: usbcore: registered new >> interface driver brcmfmac >> jul 22 14:13:23 localhost.localdomain kernel: brcmfmac: >> brcmf_c_preinit_dcmds: Firmware version = wl0: Aug 29 2016 20:48:16 version >> 7.45.41.26 (r640327) FWID 01-4527cfab >> jul 22 14:13:23 localhost.localdomain kernel: brcmfmac: brcmf_sdio_hostmail: >> Unknown mailbox data content: 0x40012 >> jul 22 14:13:26 localhost.localdomain kernel: brcmfmac: >> brcmf_sdio_bus_rxctl: resumed on timeout >> jul 22 14:13:28 localhost.localdomain kernel: brcmfmac: >> brcmf_sdio_bus_rxctl: resumed on timeout >> jul 22 14:13:31 localhost.localdomain kernel: brcmfmac: >> brcmf_sdio_bus_rxctl: resumed on timeout >> <repeats> >> >> The real culprit here seems to be: >> >> jul 22 14:13:23 localhost.localdomain kernel: brcmfmac: brcmf_sdio_hostmail: >> Unknown mailbox data content: 0x40012 >> >> I've tried reverting allmost all changes under >> drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211 >> as well as those under drivers/mmc, but that did not help. >> >> Googling for the "Unknown mailbox data content" error found some Raspberry >> Pi 3 >> related comments where users report success with a different firmware version >> from: >> https://android.googlesource.com/platform/hardware/broadcom/wlan/+/master/bcmdhd/firmware/bcm4343/ >> >> So I tried that as well as a version extracted from the Android install >> on the tablet and both work fine, only the "version 7.45.41.26" which >> happens to be the one in linux-firmware causes this problem, I've put >> all (Linux build, not NDIS) versions I could find here: >> >> http://jwrdegoede.danny.cz/brcm-firmware/ >> >> I've the feeling that the 7.45.41.26 version is a bit buggy / suspect to >> certain timing problems and 4.13 just happens to trigger those timing >> conditions... >> >> russianneuromancer has reported seeing a similar problem with 4.13. >> >> russianneuromancer, can you check if the device you are seeing this with >> also has a brcm43430 sdio wifi and if so if switching to: >> >> http://jwrdegoede.danny.cz/brcm-firmware/brcmfmac43430-sdio.bin.7.45.77.0.ucode1043.2054 >> >> Fixes this ? >> >> Regards, >> >> Hans
