Re: b43 kills my kernel

2010-01-05 Thread Oncaphillis
On 01/05/2010 08:27 PM, Larry Finger wrote: On 01/05/2010 11:18 AM, Michael Buesch wrote: On Monday 04 January 2010 22:51:40 Oncaphillis wrote: Did any of the patches for a device without a sprom make it into the 2.6.33-rc2 ? No we decided that the patches were

Re: b43 kills my kernel

2010-01-04 Thread Oncaphillis
On 11/19/2009 12:30 PM, Michael Buesch wrote: On Thursday 19 November 2009 12:16:46 Oncaphillis wrote: On 11/19/2009 12:09 PM, Michael Buesch wrote: On Thursday 19 November 2009 12:07:30 Oncaphillis wrote: So I'm at a loss here, but if someone comes up with a bright idea to test or needs

Re: [PATCH RFC] ssb: Generic SPROM override for devices without SPROM

2009-11-24 Thread Oncaphillis
At least on my Acer One D250 dmidecode provides a mainboard UUID. Sebastian Stupid me, I had a closer look at the UUID and they are using one scheme supported by uuidgen where the last 6 bytes are the MAC address *of eth0* ___

Re: b43 kills my kernel

2009-11-20 Thread Oncaphillis
On 11/20/2009 10:27 AM, Michael Buesch wrote: On Friday 20 November 2009 02:41:58 Oncaphillis wrote: On 11/20/2009 12:46 AM, Oncaphillis wrote: On 11/19/2009 06:44 PM, Michael Buesch wrote: On Thursday 19 November 2009 16:41:12 Michael Buesch wrote: Wait, that still can't work. I'll fix

Re: [PATCH RFC] ssb: Generic SPROM override for devices without SPROM

2009-11-20 Thread Oncaphillis
You might look at the root= part of /proc/cmdline. Mine says root=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-TOSHIBA_MK2546GSX_18C2P0KCT-part1. That disk serial number would certainly be unique. Even if it just said root=/dev/sda1, it would be repeatable. Ok, I think this is getting ugly :) The problem with all

Re: [PATCH RFC] ssb: Generic SPROM override for devices without SPROM

2009-11-20 Thread Oncaphillis
On 11/20/2009 04:36 PM, Bartłomiej Ochman wrote: Oncaphillis wrote: At least on my Acer One D250 dmidecode provides a mainboard UUID. Who's the vendor of ethernet chip in this acer? Broadcom too? lspci tells me its broadcom See the lspci under http://oncaphillis.net/lspci-aspire-d250.txt

Re: b43 kills my kernel

2009-11-19 Thread Oncaphillis
So I'm at a loss here, but if someone comes up with a bright idea to test or needs more informations I'm willing to test the resulting code on my machine. Sebastian ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de

Re: b43 kills my kernel

2009-11-19 Thread Oncaphillis
On 11/19/2009 12:09 PM, Michael Buesch wrote: On Thursday 19 November 2009 12:07:30 Oncaphillis wrote: So I'm at a loss here, but if someone comes up with a bright idea to test or needs more informations I'm willing to test the resulting code on my machine. Erm, no. Can you please

Re: b43 kills my kernel

2009-11-19 Thread Oncaphillis
Erm, no. Can you please answer the questions that you didn't answer, yet? Especially the request for the original vendor driver. oh sorry. I did that, but the mail only went to larry -- stupid me -- the device didn't come with a CD/DVD and I killed Windows XP right away. Sorry

Re: b43 kills my kernel

2009-11-19 Thread Oncaphillis
On 11/19/2009 01:49 PM, Michael Buesch wrote: Can you please try the following patch? http://bu3sch.de/patches/wireless-testing/20091119-1349/patches/002-ssb-rewrite-sprom-fallback-mechanism.patch That seems to freeze my kernel. I tell you more in a couple of hours.

Re: b43 kills my kernel

2009-11-19 Thread Oncaphillis
On 11/19/2009 06:44 PM, Michael Buesch wrote: On Thursday 19 November 2009 16:41:12 Michael Buesch wrote: Wait, that still can't work. I'll fix it soon... Ok, here's the updated version. Please test this:

Re: b43 kills my kernel

2009-11-19 Thread Oncaphillis
On 11/20/2009 12:46 AM, Oncaphillis wrote: On 11/19/2009 06:44 PM, Michael Buesch wrote: On Thursday 19 November 2009 16:41:12 Michael Buesch wrote: Wait, that still can't work. I'll fix it soon... Ok, here's the updated version. Please test this: http://bu3sch.de/patches/wireless-testing

Re: b43 kills my kernel

2009-11-18 Thread Oncaphillis
On 11/18/2009 08:54 AM, Peter Stuge wrote: Oncaphillis wrote: So as far as I understand both the early kernel as well as lspci think that the mmio area of the Broadcom chip is located at 5710 only ssb gets the wrong address. It gets set in ssbioremap via pci_iomap. After

Re: b43 kills my kernel

2009-11-18 Thread Oncaphillis
On 11/18/2009 06:15 PM, Larry Finger wrote: On 11/18/2009 08:34 AM, Oncaphillis wrote: The first ioread16 actually succeeds, only the second one fails. My lspci -vnn tells me that the memory is: Memory at 5710 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] Could it be that one has to make

Re: b43 kills my kernel

2009-11-18 Thread Oncaphillis
On 11/18/2009 06:51 PM, Larry Finger wrote: After you get access to the machine, please try my patch. It has been tested here. The first few lines from the output are: ssb: Entering sprom_do_read ssb: Read 0x2801 from SPROM ssb: Read 0x103C137C from SPROM ssb: Read 0x6DBE0078 from SPROM

Re: b43 kills my kernel

2009-11-18 Thread Oncaphillis
Is it this device? http://hax0rpedia.com/index.php/Disassembeling_the_AAO_D250 Can you open the lower-right cover shown here: http://hax0rpedia.com/index.php/File:Aao_d250_step2.jpg and take a closeup picture of the wireless card? Also probably a picture of the backside of the card.

Re: b43 kills my kernel

2009-11-17 Thread Oncaphillis
Thanks for posting the dmesg. In looking through it, the only thing I noticed was the following: [ 25.844834](523 KHz - 533 KHz @ 4 KHz), (600 mBi, 2300 mBm) [ 25.844844](5735000 KHz - 5835000 KHz @ 4 KHz), (600 mBi, 3000 mBm) [ 25.845455] cfg80211:

Re: b43 kills my kernel

2009-11-15 Thread Oncaphillis
On 11/15/2009 03:40 PM, Michael Buesch wrote: On Saturday 14 November 2009 21:20:28 Michael Buesch wrote: Yeah, ok. That doesn't seem to be a bug in b43 then. It's the CRDA subsystem waiting for a userspace daemon. But it won't finish waiting, because userspace is not running, yet. I guess

Re: b43 kills my kernel

2009-11-14 Thread Oncaphillis
On 11/13/2009 08:20 PM, Larry Finger wrote: On 11/13/2009 11:46 AM, Oncaphillis wrote: Thanks for the tip. But it still hangs We still need to know where it hangs. If you boot to console mode (type a 3 on the option line in GRUB), does it boot? If it does not, what is the last line shown

Re: b43 kills my kernel

2009-11-14 Thread Oncaphillis
On 11/14/2009 12:24 PM, Oncaphillis wrote: On 11/13/2009 08:20 PM, Larry Finger wrote: On 11/13/2009 11:46 AM, Oncaphillis wrote: Thanks for the tip. But it still hangs We still need to know where it hangs. If you boot to console mode (type a 3 on the option line in GRUB), does

Re: b43 kills my kernel

2009-11-14 Thread Oncaphillis
On 11/14/2009 04:42 PM, Larry Finger wrote: On 11/14/2009 07:37 AM, Oncaphillis wrote: So it seems to me it doesn't even reach the loading of p43.ko but gets stuck in the cfg80211 layer. We can test that hypothesis. Generate a kernel without b43. Once it boots, enter the following commands

Re: b43 kills my kernel

2009-11-14 Thread Oncaphillis
On 11/14/2009 08:45 PM, Michael Buesch wrote: On Saturday 14 November 2009 12:24:24 Oncaphillis wrote: On 11/13/2009 08:20 PM, Larry Finger wrote: On 11/13/2009 11:46 AM, Oncaphillis wrote: Thanks for the tip. But it still hangs We still need to know where it hangs. If you boot

b43 kills my kernel

2009-11-13 Thread Oncaphillis
Hi, I have a Acer One D250 which is equipped with a BCM4312 for which on the homepage the support is marked as in progress. Whenever the kernel tries to insert b43.ko it freezes. If've moved up to 2.6.32-rc7, but is always stays like this. snip source=lspci -vnn 01:00.0 Network controller

Re: b43 kills my kernel

2009-11-13 Thread Oncaphillis
On 11/13/2009 05:12 PM, Larry Finger wrote: On 11/13/2009 09:33 AM, Oncaphillis wrote: Hi, I have a Acer One D250 which is equipped with a BCM4312 for which on the homepage the support is marked as in progress. Whenever the kernel tries to insert b43.ko it freezes. If've moved up to 2.6.32

Re: b43 kills my kernel

2009-11-13 Thread Oncaphillis
On 11/13/2009 05:56 PM, William Bourque wrote: Oncaphillis wrote: On 11/13/2009 05:12 PM, Larry Finger wrote: On 11/13/2009 09:33 AM, Oncaphillis wrote: Hi, I have a Acer One D250 which is equipped with a BCM4312 for which on the homepage the support is marked as in progress. Whenever

Re: b43 kills my kernel

2009-11-13 Thread Oncaphillis
On 11/13/2009 08:20 PM, Larry Finger wrote: On 11/13/2009 11:46 AM, Oncaphillis wrote: Thanks for the tip. But it still hangs We still need to know where it hangs. If you boot to console mode (type a 3 on the option line in GRUB), does it boot? If it does not, what is the last

Re: b43 kills my kernel

2009-11-13 Thread Oncaphillis
On 11/13/2009 09:43 PM, Michael Buesch wrote: On Friday 13 November 2009 21:36:31 Oncaphillis wrote: On 11/13/2009 08:20 PM, Larry Finger wrote: On 11/13/2009 11:46 AM, Oncaphillis wrote: Thanks for the tip. But it still hangs We still need to know where it hangs