Asus 520gu

[Celejar <celejar@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:24:14 +1000
Chris Martin <chris@martin.cc> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 1:33 PM, Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > The recent OpenWrt release, along with the recent b43 work on the LP
> > PHY, inspired me to dig up my Asus 520gu and see what it could do.
> 
> 
> 
> > OpenWrt has the radio disabled out of the box.  When I enable it, the
> > system seems to hang.  I say seems, since I don't have serial access -
> > all I know is that my telnet connection dies / freezes, and I can't log
> > in again.  All I can do is reflash.
> >
> > Celejar
> > -- <http://foffl.sourceforge.net>
> >
> 
> 
> I too have been looking the latest Openwrt release and the b43 driver
> and I too was hoping that support for the broadcom 5354 was included
> I have a console on my router so I can see what is going on
> 
> When the wireless is enabled the b43 driver "appears" to eat all memory and
> I get OOM (Out Of Memory) errors
> This has been reported on the Openwrt Trac site
> https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/7117
> https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/6907
> 
> I have yet to confirm if it is the b43 driver, mac80211, or other component
> When I test on other broadcom chipssets that are not "5354" I have no real
> issues
> So the most likely culprit is the LP-PHY in the b43 driver, but this is yet
> to be confirmed.
> 
> I have tested with a 2.6.33.2 kernel and the latest wireless compat
> 
> I have also only tested in AP mode.  I have not tried AH or STA ..  yet

Thanks much.  I reported my experience, for whatever worth it has, to
#6907, and I'll be following that bug.

Celejar
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