Re: BCM4312 Fails when xdm is started

[Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>]

On Monday 24 November 2008 09:49:38 Yuval Hager wrote:
> On Sunday 23 November 2008, Larry Finger wrote:
> > From a config file posted earlier, the OP is using SLAB. Is there any point
> > in trying SLUB?
> 
> Another try, not sure what it means:
> 
> * Added CONFIG_SLUB and CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG
> 
> * boot parameters: root=/dev/sda3 debug memory_corruption_check=1 devres.log=1 debug_objects debugpat 
> acpi.debug_layer=0x00410002 acpi.debug_level=0xffffffff acpi=off apic=debug nolapic irqpoll pci=noacpi slub_debug=FZPU
> 
> * cat /proc/interrupts is
>            CPU0       
>   0:      16658    XT-PIC-XT        timer
>   1:        289    XT-PIC-XT        i8042
>   2:          0    XT-PIC-XT        cascade
>   3:         60    XT-PIC-XT        uhci_hcd:usb2, ehci_hcd:usb4
>   5:       9163    XT-PIC-XT        sata_via, HDA Intel
>   7:          0    XT-PIC-XT        uhci_hcd:usb3
>   8:          2    XT-PIC-XT        rtc
>  10:       1712    XT-PIC-XT        b43
>  11:        131    XT-PIC-XT        uhci_hcd:usb1
>  12:        706    XT-PIC-XT        i8042
>  14:          0    XT-PIC-XT        ide0
>  15:          0    XT-PIC-XT        ide1
> NMI:          0   Non-maskable interrupts
> LOC:          0   Local timer interrupts
> RES:          0   Rescheduling interrupts
> CAL:          0   Function call interrupts
> TLB:          0   TLB shootdowns
> TRM:          0   Thermal event interrupts
> SPU:          0   Spurious interrupts
> ERR:          0
> MIS:          0
> 
> * lspci -d 14e4:4312 -x
> 02:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11a/b/g (rev 02)
> 00: e4 14 12 43 06 01 10 00 02 00 80 02 08 00 00 00
> 10: 04 c0 ff fd 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> 20: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 3c 10 71 13
> 30: 00 00 00 00 40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0a 01 00 00
> 
> * xset dpms force standby
> * wake up
> * dmesg is virtually the same as before, complaining about nobody handling irq 10 and disabling it.

Actually, b43 _does_ use IRQ10 now.
I guess the card dies such a horrible death, that it also asserts the IRQ line forever.

> * /proc/interrupts now is
>   0:      80987    XT-PIC-XT        timer
>   1:       1027    XT-PIC-XT        i8042
>   2:          0    XT-PIC-XT        cascade
>   3:         60    XT-PIC-XT        uhci_hcd:usb2, ehci_hcd:usb4
>   5:      10400    XT-PIC-XT        sata_via, HDA Intel
>   7:          0    XT-PIC-XT        uhci_hcd:usb3
>   8:          2    XT-PIC-XT        rtc
>  10:     200000    XT-PIC-XT        b43
>  11:        131    XT-PIC-XT        uhci_hcd:usb1
>  12:       3059    XT-PIC-XT        i8042
>  14:          0    XT-PIC-XT        ide0
>  15:          0    XT-PIC-XT        ide1
> NMI:          0   Non-maskable interrupts
> LOC:          0   Local timer interrupts
> RES:          0   Rescheduling interrupts
> CAL:          0   Function call interrupts
> TLB:          0   TLB shootdowns
> TRM:          0   Thermal event interrupts
> SPU:          0   Spurious interrupts
> ERR:          0
> MIS:          0
> 
> * Now check this out - the output of lspci -d 14e4:4312 -x
> 02:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11a/b/g (rev ff)
> 00: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
> 10: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
> 20: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
> 30: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
> 
> (I double checked this)
> 
> huh?

Hah, interesting. I think your hardware may be faulty, in fact.
To me it really seems like the mainboard has power failures on the PCI bus.

This is a laptop, so you can't pull random hardware? Can you run some
hardware burn-in tests like mprime (http://mersenne.org/freesoft/) or memtest?
If that doesn't help, can you try with another operating system?

-- 
Greetings Michael.