From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: isedev@gmail.com
Cc: b43-dev@lists.infradead.org,
linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: BCM4312 / b43 DMA transmission sequence errors
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 19:22:16 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51411838.6070402@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1695808.c7XUjJpf0R@wks001.ise.net>
On 03/13/2013 05:31 PM, ISE Development wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The wireless connection keeps failing shortly after being established. Up to now, I've tracked it down to a DMA transmission sequence error in ring 3. Beyond that, I cannot say...
>
> Happy to provide further information and to test any potential fixes.
Have you applied the patch that increases the number of RX ring slots? It is
commit ccae0e50c16a7f and was committed on Feb 17, 2013. That fixed a lot of
problems on the BCM4312. It seems that the firmware fails to check for overflow
of the RX ring and blindly corrupts things.
Larry
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-14 0:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-13 22:31 BCM4312 / b43 DMA transmission sequence errors ISE Development
2013-03-14 0:22 ` Larry Finger [this message]
[not found] ` <1476129.oNtxuF3Ght@wks001.ise.net>
2013-03-14 2:37 ` Larry Finger
2013-03-14 13:08 ` ISE Development
2013-03-14 21:39 ` Chris Vine
2013-03-14 22:39 ` ISE Development
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