From: William Bourque <william.bourque@polymtl.ca>
To: b43-dev@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Request for testing b43 & Broadcom 14e4:4315 cards for DMA ERRORs (Linux 3.0)
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2011 23:40:44 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DE7063C.4010002@polymtl.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTi=fgGTvjdQ0Ghd15CBoYzd9TLU2CQ@mail.gmail.com>
Hello
On 30/05/11 03:22 AM, Rafa? Mi?ecki wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> I believe I've grabbed e-mails of all the people reporting DMA errors
> on b43/bcm43xx mailing list.
>
> Short remind of the problem. When using b43 and LP-PHY card on some
> specific machines you got:
> b43-phy0 ERROR: Fatal DMA error: 0x00000800, 0x00000000, 0x00000000,
> 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000
> b43-phy0: Controller RESET (DMA error) ...
>
> The workaround was to use PIO instead of DMA, or "modprobe wl && rmmod wl".
>
> I believe we've fixed that errors in Linux 3.0-rc1. Can you give it a
> chance and report back?
>
Sorry about the late report, I was short on time this week.
This patch seems to fix the problem perfectly, I am transfering at full
speed (~2MB/sec... kinda slow, though) since 2 hours and the card handle
it perfectly. Nothing in the log, not even warning so I guess this is it!
Big thanks to you, Rafa?, good work!
- William
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-02 3:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-30 7:22 Request for testing b43 & Broadcom 14e4:4315 cards for DMA ERRORs (Linux 3.0) Rafał Miłecki
2011-05-30 7:45 ` Rafał Miłecki
2011-05-31 23:29 ` Chris Vine
2011-06-01 9:17 ` Rafał Miłecki
2011-06-02 3:40 ` William Bourque [this message]
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