From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Arend van Spriel" Subject: Re: brcmsmac crashed 3.3-rc5 kernel Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 18:57:02 +0100 Message-ID: <4F57A16E.8010701@broadcom.com> References: <1331136086.2168.0@numa-i> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Helmut Jarausch" , "netdev@vger.kernel.org" Return-path: Received: from mms3.broadcom.com ([216.31.210.19]:1793 "EHLO MMS3.broadcom.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756440Ab2CGR5Q (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Mar 2012 12:57:16 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1331136086.2168.0@numa-i> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 03/07/2012 05:01 PM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi Arend, > thanks for your interest. > > Unfortunately, I have no experience in kernel debugging. > If I switch on several flags in the 'kernel hacking' section, I get > losts of information on screen - but I don't know how capture these on > disk. Sometimes your last resort is using a digital camera to capture what is showing on your screen. Can you do that and sent me the picture? > Meanwhile I have found out that the brcmsmac driver does work under > special circumstances. > > My notebook (HP 625) has to NICs - ethernet and Wlan (BCM4313). > If I disconnect my PC from the internet, or configure it not to start > the ethernet connection, then I can start the WLAN successfully - and > it even seems to be stable. What happens when you start ethernet after WLAN? > On the other hand, if I start the ethernet (RTL8101E/RTL8102E) first > and try to start the WLAN next, the kernel crashes each time as > reported. Maybe an issue with shared interrupts. Can you provide the lspci output (ie. lspci -v) to me. > I can live with this situation but if you like me to find out what's > going on I'm willing to help. But for that I need your help on kernel > debugging first (currently 3.3-rc6) Safe the good stuff for later ;-) Gr. AvS