From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Larry Finger Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 14:57:48 -0500 Subject: PIO mode In-Reply-To: <20101018041103.GK1593@home.pavel.comp> References: <20101009183637.GT1593@home.pavel.comp> <20101009213220.GU1593@home.pavel.comp> <20101010072158.GV1593@home.pavel.comp> <20101010170311.GW1593@home.pavel.comp> <20101013065845.GG1593@home.pavel.comp> <4CBB7A46.6040507@lwfinger.net> <20101018041103.GK1593@home.pavel.comp> Message-ID: <4CBCA6BC.6080605@lwfinger.net> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: b43-dev@lists.infradead.org On 10/17/2010 11:11 PM, Paul Fertser wrote: > > This works the same as coldbooting b43 without this parameter, i.e. on > wireless-testing it loads and works but i'm able to induce the fatal dma > error by producing constant upstream traffic. It switches to PIO mode and > is able to scan but fails to associate. Reloading the module produces the > dma error immediately, and pio still doesn't work (see dmesg in my other > message). If I read this correctly, the latest wireless-testing version of b43 works from a coldboot, but it fails when doing heavy transmitting. How do you generate this upstream traffic? I'm hoping to duplicate your results on my netbook. Larry