On Sat, 31 Mar 2007 21:27:36 -0400 (EDT) "D. Hugh Redelmeier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dijo:
> | From: jeffrey franc-law <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > | I have been running Suse 9.2 with the Linuxant Broadcom driver for the > | past 2 years, with not difficulty. R3420ca, athlon 64. > | > | Last week I upgraded my ram (replaced the "second" slot 256m with a 1gb) > | to 1.2gb total. Now, when I turn the machine on the wireless will not > | run. > > The chip has some crazy limitation: it can only DMA into memory > addresses below 1G (or something like this). Not documented by > Broadcom, but what is? > > This was discovered two years ago. I think that ndiswrapper, > linuxant, and the native driver all were adjusted to reflect this. So > I am surprised that you are observing it now. Maybe you are observing > something else. > > Here is the start of a thread about the problem > http://lists.pcxperience.com/pipermail/linuxr3000/2005-March/005085.html > > SuSE 9.2 came out just before this. Could your linuxant driver be > older than the fix? Omigod, I have the same computer and did the same thing with the RAM. My Broadcom 4306 is running just great with ndiswrapper. However, I am an Ubuntuoid, not a SUSEoid. And I also note that SUSE 9.2 is getting kind of long in the tooth. On the other hand I upgraded to 1.25 GB RAM back in the days of Hoary (always amd64) and still never had a problem with the wireless chip. I always had to redo ndiswrapper after every dist-upgrade, but it always worked after reinstalling. I also note that I have never used the Linuxant driver. Here is a post on an Ubuntu forum that I followed after upgrading to Edgy. Maybe it will help: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=340689&highlight=broadcom+4306 _______________________________________________ LinuxR3000 mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pcxperience.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxr3000 Wiki at http://prinsig.se/weekee/
