From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Celejar Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 10:28:29 -0400 Subject: Asus 520gu In-Reply-To: References: <20100412233313.542e9b8d.celejar@gmail.com> Message-ID: <20100413102829.cdba37a7.celejar@gmail.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: b43-dev@lists.infradead.org On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:24:14 +1000 Chris Martin wrote: > On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 1:33 PM, Celejar 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 > > -- > > > > > 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 -- foffl.sourceforge.net - Feeds OFFLine, an offline RSS/Atom aggregator mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator