Re: More data on open-source firmware crash

2009-02-22 Thread Larry Finger
Francesco Gringoli wrote: > > do you mind testing this firmware? It's not the solution, but can help > us understanding if we should follow this way. Download at > http://www.ing.unibs.it/~gringoli/fwtest.tar.gz > > Before using this firmware please recompile b43 changing these two > definitions

Re: I need some help stabaizing b43 for a 4306

2009-02-22 Thread John Mountcastle
Here is a little snippet of dmesg, just after I brought the link up. b43-phy0 debug: Current TX power output: 15.0 dBm, Desired TX power output: 15.0 dBm SFW2-OUT-ERROR IN= OUT=wlan0 SRC=192.168.0.197 DST=146.6.54.21 LEN=52 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=16037 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=57570 DPT=80 WINDOW

Re: More data on open-source firmware crash

2009-02-22 Thread Francesco Gringoli
On Feb 22, 2009, at 8:10 PM, Larry Finger wrote: > Francesco and Lorenzo, > > I modified my driver source to dump the firmware machine state > whenever the > b43_dma_handle_txstatus routine was called with an out-of-order > cookie. With > proprietary firmware, the test of a flood ping in one

Re: I need some help stabaizing b43 for a 4306

2009-02-22 Thread Michael Buesch
On Sunday 22 February 2009 21:45:44 John Mountcastle wrote: > > Michael, configuring a new kernel was a real blast from the past. I haven't > done that in several years but I think I got it done. Funny thing, when I > booted the debug kernel, the interface was rock solid for almost an hour, not

Re: Capturing FCS error frames using b43 driver

2009-02-22 Thread Francesco Gringoli
On Feb 22, 2009, at 2:42 PM, Gábor Stefanik wrote: > On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Francesco Gringoli > wrote: >> On Feb 17, 2009, at 11:54 PM, Michael Buesch wrote: >> >>> Please read the code. There are lots of sanity checks in b43 and >>> mac80211 >>> that make it impossible to receive com

Re: Capturing FCS error frames using b43 driver

2009-02-22 Thread Gábor Stefanik
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Francesco Gringoli wrote: > On Feb 17, 2009, at 11:54 PM, Michael Buesch wrote: > >> Please read the code. There are lots of sanity checks in b43 and >> mac80211 >> that make it impossible to receive completely corrupted frames. > I reconsidered this message becaus

Re: Capturing FCS error frames using b43 driver

2009-02-22 Thread Francesco Gringoli
On Feb 17, 2009, at 11:54 PM, Michael Buesch wrote: > Please read the code. There are lots of sanity checks in b43 and > mac80211 > that make it impossible to receive completely corrupted frames. I reconsidered this message because I too did some tests in capturing frames with proprietary firm