From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: Yuval Hager <yuval@avramzon.net>
Cc: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de
Subject: Re: BCM4312 Fails when xdm is started
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 10:11:53 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <492AD249.3020309@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200811241155.47079.mb@bu3sch.de>
Michael Buesch wrote:
> On Monday 24 November 2008 09:49:38 Yuval Hager wrote:
>> * 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?
>
I also think you are seeing a hardware failure. Another test to try is
http://freshmeat.net/projects/cpuburn/?topic_id=146, which will exercise the system.
Larry
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[not found] ` <200811151907.05636.yuval@avramzon.net>
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2008-11-21 16:25 ` BCM4312 Fails when xdm is started Larry Finger
2008-11-21 17:42 ` Michael Buesch
2008-11-21 18:28 ` Larry Finger
2008-11-22 6:39 ` Yuval Hager
2008-11-22 15:13 ` Michael Buesch
2008-11-22 15:32 ` Larry Finger
2008-11-22 15:54 ` Michael Buesch
2008-11-23 7:26 ` Yuval Hager
2008-11-23 11:49 ` Yuval Hager
2008-11-23 12:20 ` Michael Buesch
2008-11-23 15:42 ` Larry Finger
2008-11-23 17:42 ` Michael Buesch
[not found] ` <200811231955.41722.yuval@avramzon.net>
2008-11-23 18:08 ` Michael Buesch
2008-11-23 20:46 ` Peter Stuge
2008-11-23 21:09 ` Larry Finger
2008-11-24 8:49 ` Yuval Hager
2008-11-24 10:55 ` Michael Buesch
2008-11-24 16:11 ` Larry Finger [this message]
2008-11-25 5:43 ` Yuval Hager
2008-11-25 7:18 ` Peter Stuge
2008-12-07 9:29 ` Yuval Hager
2008-12-07 16:15 ` Larry Finger
2008-11-25 11:05 ` Michael Buesch
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