Re: Tons of interrupts on driver load

On Sun, 2008-04-27 at 18:07 +0200, Michael Buesch wrote: > I'm interested in buying multi-PHY cards (dual-PHY and multi-core). > Do you know a source for such cards? Look for Dell 1450. There are some on ebay.de. It's miniPCI (at least some of them). -- Regards, Pavel Roskin _

Re: Tons of interrupts on driver load

On Sunday 27 April 2008 18:57:20 Larry Finger wrote: > Michael Buesch wrote: > > On Sunday 27 April 2008 17:36:22 Larry Finger wrote: > >> Richard Jonsson wrote: > >>> With the reverted commit "b43: Fix bandswitch" back in, and the above > >>> patch applied the bad behavior is back. This is on mai

Re: Tons of interrupts on driver load

Michael Buesch wrote: > On Sunday 27 April 2008 17:36:22 Larry Finger wrote: >> Richard Jonsson wrote: >>> With the reverted commit "b43: Fix bandswitch" back in, and the above >>> patch applied the bad behavior is back. This is on mainline. >>> >>> regards, Richard >> My interface was definitely

Re: Tons of interrupts on driver load

Michael Buesch skrev: > Please test whether this fixes the regression. > > Index: wireless-testing/drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c > === > --- wireless-testing.orig/drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c 2008-04-27 > 17:47:49.0

Re: Tons of interrupts on driver load

On Sunday 27 April 2008 17:36:22 Larry Finger wrote: > Richard Jonsson wrote: > > > > With the reverted commit "b43: Fix bandswitch" back in, and the above > > patch applied the bad behavior is back. This is on mainline. > > > > regards, Richard > > My interface was definitely a BCM4311 with onl

Re: Tons of interrupts on driver load

Please test whether this fixes the regression. Index: wireless-testing/drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c === --- wireless-testing.orig/drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c 2008-04-27 17:47:49.0 +0200 +++ wireless-testing/drive

Re: Tons of interrupts on driver load

On Sunday 27 April 2008 17:36:22 Larry Finger wrote: > Richard Jonsson wrote: > > > > With the reverted commit "b43: Fix bandswitch" back in, and the above > > patch applied the bad behavior is back. This is on mainline. > > > > regards, Richard > > My interface was definitely a BCM4311 with onl

Re: Tons of interrupts on driver load

Richard Jonsson wrote: With the reverted commit "b43: Fix bandswitch" back in, and the above patch applied the bad behavior is back. This is on mainline. regards, Richard My interface was definitely a BCM4311 with only B/G mode. I don't have it anymore as it came in a laptop that was repla

Re: Tons of interrupts on driver load

>> I have no idea as to why the interface is switching from 5 to 2.4 GHz, >> and back endlessly. Perhaps Michael knows. It is also possible that the >> bug is in the new mac80211 band API, which isn't used by b43 when the >> "bad" commit is backed out. >> >> The patch contained in >> http://lis

Re: Tons of interrupts on driver load

Larry Finger skrev: > Richard Jonsson wrote: >> Larry Finger skrev: >>> Richard Jonsson wrote: Larry Finger skrev: > If Linus's latest git still has the problem, please do a bisection. I I've now completed the bisection, result below. I'm not really sure this is the bad commit,

Re: Tons of interrupts on driver load

Michael Buesch wrote: > Yeah, well. We shouldn't tell mac80211 about the A-PHY, as that doesn't > work, yet. Will this patch do the trick, at least until A-PHY's work? Index: wireless-testing/drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c === ---

Re: Tons of interrupts on driver load

On Sunday 27 April 2008 01:42:24 Larry Finger wrote: > I have no idea as to why the interface is switching from 5 to 2.4 GHz, Well, most likely it's scanning the channels, right? > and back endlessly. Perhaps Michael knows. It is also possible that > the bug is in the new mac80211 band API, whi

Re: Tons of interrupts on driver load

Richard Jonsson wrote: > Larry Finger skrev: >> Richard Jonsson wrote: >>> Larry Finger skrev: If Linus's latest git still has the problem, please do a bisection. I >>> I've now completed the bisection, result below. I'm not really sure >>> this is the bad commit, as v2.6.25 is fine, and thi

Re: Tons of interrupts on driver load

Larry Finger skrev: Richard Jonsson wrote: Larry Finger skrev: If Linus's latest git still has the problem, please do a bisection. I I've now completed the bisection, result below. I'm not really sure this is the bad commit, as v2.6.25 is fine, and this commit is from february. But then again

Re: Tons of interrupts on driver load

Richard Jonsson wrote: > Larry Finger skrev: >> If Linus's latest git still has the problem, please do a bisection. I > > I've now completed the bisection, result below. I'm not really sure this > is the bad commit, as v2.6.25 is fine, and this commit is from february. > But then again, I don't

Re: Tons of interrupts on driver load

Larry Finger skrev: > Richard Jonsson wrote: >> Larry Finger skrev: >>> Richard Jonsson wrote: flipping switch a few times, led unchanged [ 1534.770048] b43-phy0: Radio hardware status changed to ENABLED [ 1550.778511] b43-phy0: Radio hardware status changed to DISABLED [ 1562.7

Re: Tons of interrupts on driver load

Richard Jonsson skrev: > Larry Finger skrev: >> If Linus's latest git still has the problem, please do a bisection. I > > I've now completed the bisection, result below. I'm not really sure this > is the bad commit, as v2.6.25 is fine, and this commit is from february. > But then again, I don't

Re: Tons of interrupts on driver load

Larry Finger skrev: > If Linus's latest git still has the problem, please do a bisection. I I've now completed the bisection, result below. I'm not really sure this is the bad commit, as v2.6.25 is fine, and this commit is from february. But then again, I don't fully understand how git does it'

Re: Tons of interrupts on driver load

Richard Jonsson wrote: > Larry Finger skrev: >> Richard Jonsson wrote: >>> flipping switch a few times, led unchanged >>> [ 1534.770048] b43-phy0: Radio hardware status changed to ENABLED >>> [ 1550.778511] b43-phy0: Radio hardware status changed to DISABLED >>> [ 1562.783474] b43-phy0: Radio hardw

Re: Tons of interrupts on driver load

Larry Finger skrev: > Richard Jonsson wrote: >> flipping switch a few times, led unchanged >> [ 1534.770048] b43-phy0: Radio hardware status changed to ENABLED >> [ 1550.778511] b43-phy0: Radio hardware status changed to DISABLED >> [ 1562.783474] b43-phy0: Radio hardware status changed to ENABLED

Re: Tons of interrupts on driver load

Here comes a slice of dmesg with debugging turned on. This is from v2.6.25-4571-g87322bc of mainline. Same as before. Richard Jonsson skrev: >> OK, after bootup with v2.5.25-rc3-git I get this, looks sane to me: >> >> [ 32.474786] b43-phy0: Loading firmware version 351.126 (2006-07-29 >> 05

Re: Tons of interrupts on driver load

Richard Jonsson wrote: > flipping switch a few times, led unchanged > [ 1534.770048] b43-phy0: Radio hardware status changed to ENABLED > [ 1550.778511] b43-phy0: Radio hardware status changed to DISABLED > [ 1562.783474] b43-phy0: Radio hardware status changed to ENABLED > [ 1565.788237] b43-phy0:

Re: Tons of interrupts on driver load

> > OK, after bootup with v2.5.25-rc3-git I get this, looks sane to me: > > [ 32.474786] b43-phy0: Loading firmware version 351.126 (2006-07-29 > 05:54:02) > [ 32.474797] b43-phy0 warning: You are using an old firmware image. > Support for old firmware will be removed in July 2008. > [ 32

Re: Tons of interrupts on driver load

Richard Jonsson skrev: > Larry Finger skrev: >> Richard Jonsson wrote: >>> [10493.303801] b43-phy0 warning: You are using an old firmware image. >>> Support for old firmware will be removed in July 2008. >>> [10493.303807] b43-phy0 warning: You must go to >>> http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Dri

Re: Tons of interrupts on driver load

Larry Finger skrev: > Richard Jonsson wrote: >> [10493.303801] b43-phy0 warning: You are using an old firmware image. >> Support for old firmware will be removed in July 2008. >> [10493.303807] b43-phy0 warning: You must go to >> http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#devicefirmware and >

Re: Tons of interrupts on driver load

Michael Buesch skrev: > On Friday 25 April 2008 18:09:27 Richard Jonsson wrote: >> To add, I thought that my hardware had died judging by the messages >> above, so I temporarily connected to an access point in the area and >> could successfully load a few webpages before I disconnected. > > You

Re: Tons of interrupts on driver load

Richard Jonsson wrote: > [10493.303801] b43-phy0 warning: You are using an old firmware image. > Support for old firmware will be removed in July 2008. > [10493.303807] b43-phy0 warning: You must go to > http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#devicefirmware and > download the latest firmw

Re: Tons of interrupts on driver load

On Friday 25 April 2008 18:09:27 Richard Jonsson wrote: > To add, I thought that my hardware had died judging by the messages > above, so I temporarily connected to an access point in the area and > could successfully load a few webpages before I disconnected. You really need to be a bit more de

Re: Tons of interrupts on driver load

Michael Buesch skrev: > On Friday 25 April 2008 17:21:00 Richard Jonsson wrote: >> I use a custom kernel, but I think I turned off b43/ssb debugging some >> time ago. Anyway dmesg is drowning in this: > > Oh, finally something useful. Great! > >> [ 7389.533848] b43-phy0 warning: You must go to

Re: Tons of interrupts on driver load

On Friday 25 April 2008 17:21:00 Richard Jonsson wrote: > I use a custom kernel, but I think I turned off b43/ssb debugging some > time ago. Anyway dmesg is drowning in this: Oh, finally something useful. Great! > [ 7389.533848] b43-phy0 warning: You must go to > http://linuxwireless.org/en/use

Re: Tons of interrupts on driver load

Larry Finger skrev: > Richard Jonsson wrote: >> Pavel Roskin skrev: >>> On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 21:48 +0200, Richard Jonsson wrote: Hello, First some background: I am currently running latest mainline from git. This kernel suffers from a scheduler? >>> I think this question

Re: Tons of interrupts on driver load

Richard Jonsson wrote: > Pavel Roskin skrev: >> On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 21:48 +0200, Richard Jonsson wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> First some background: >>> I am currently running latest mainline from git. This kernel suffers >>> from a scheduler? >> I think this question is more suited for LKML. >> >

Re: Tons of interrupts on driver load

Pavel Roskin skrev: > On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 21:48 +0200, Richard Jonsson wrote: >> Hello, >> >> First some background: >> I am currently running latest mainline from git. This kernel suffers >> from a scheduler? > > I think this question is more suited for LKML. > I'm sorry for being a bit vague

Re: Tons of interrupts on driver load

On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 21:48 +0200, Richard Jonsson wrote: > Hello, > > First some background: > I am currently running latest mainline from git. This kernel suffers > from a scheduler? I think this question is more suited for LKML. > While trying to find what these hickups come from I ran watch

Tons of interrupts on driver load

Hello, First some background: I am currently running latest mainline from git. This kernel suffers from a scheduler? issue where keys get stuck and audio skips every now and then. Confirmed to be triggered by a commit named "sched: fix fair sleepers". I am currently on wired lan and have the w