From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paul Fertser Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2010 21:03:11 +0400 Subject: Issues with 14e4:4315 on "lenovo ideapad s9" - works only after wl In-Reply-To: References: <20101009115320.GR1593@home.pavel.comp> <20101009183637.GT1593@home.pavel.comp> <20101009213220.GU1593@home.pavel.comp> <20101010072158.GV1593@home.pavel.comp> Message-ID: <20101010170311.GW1593@home.pavel.comp> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: b43-dev@lists.infradead.org On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 08:39:04AM -0700, Larry Finger wrote: > 2010/10/10 Paul Fertser <[1]fercerpav@gmail.com> > On Sat, Oct 09, 2010 at 11:37:37PM +0200, Gabor Stefanik wrote: > > The PhoenixBIOS DMA problem is known not to appear if wl has been > > loaded beforehand. Be patient, we are working on this. (But good to > > know the S9 also reproduces it - it's probably less expensive than the > > S10 for the team to buy.) > > And yes, i know remote debugging is usually a pain but i think i can not > only provide ssh access but also some means to physically power-cycle the > device (though it'd take some time to find necessary parts). > ? > Before devoting too much effort to debugging, please try a recent > compat-wireless version. There were some changes in b43 that are implemented > there that might not be in your kernel. I hoped Compat-wireless backport release: compat-wireless-2010-10-01-10-gb9b0a4f is recent enough. As for the remote debugging, it seems to me that having an ssh access coupled with a computer-controlled outlet would be almost identical to local, right? > On my HP Mini 110 netbook, those fixes got rid of the DMA errors. Will > they allow your S9 to cold boot b43? I wonder if those DMA errors are just a sign of some other problem because the driver automatically switches to PIO but it doesn't help. -- Be free, use free (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html) software! mailto:fercerpav at gmail.com