On Feb 2, 2009, at 4:23 AM, Larry Finger wrote: > I was able to crash the 5.0 firmware again today after a 7 hour run > This time I had the following patch applied: > Finally I got my equipment, a rev 3 4306 Broadcom cardbus adapter, to crash too. What is strange is that during the weekend I did several tests and everything was fine.
Today, instead, I brought both laptop and cardbus adapter into the lab and each time I begin to download even very small files, it crashes. This happens with both openfwwf and original Broadcom firmware. I tested another cardbus adapter (though I believe they are the same, both Belkin) and it crashes too. Switching back to internal mini-pci, instead, I have no problems. Unfortunately I do not observe any message from console, I set /proc/ sys/kernel/printk to log everything but the system simply hangs and I have to switch it off. The only difference between the lab and my home networks is that here (lab) we have several SSIDs broadcasted, I can clearly observe tens of APs on the same channel and a lot of background traffic. Note that the PC is rock solid, it never crashes in other conditions. The same situation appears with two cardbus adapters so I can't believe they are both broken and independently of the cardbus slot I plug the network adapter into. Has anyone knowledge about incompatibility between b43/bcm adapters and this kind of CardBus bridge (as reported by lspci) CardBus bridge: ENE Technology Inc CB-720/2/4 Cardbus Controller (rev 01) I always believed it was 32-bit (isn't it?) and I used it without problems for a long time with an Atheros controller so I believe it is not broken. Cheers -FG _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
