From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mtiwmhc13.worldnet.att.net ([204.127.131.117]:55745 "EHLO mtiwmhc13.worldnet.att.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752935AbYKXQLy (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:11:54 -0500 Message-ID: <492AD249.3020309@lwfinger.net> (sfid-20081124_171158_739599_73E6B0B3) Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 10:11:53 -0600 From: Larry Finger MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Yuval Hager CC: Michael Buesch , LKML , wireless , bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de Subject: Re: BCM4312 Fails when xdm is started References: <200811151801.02369.yuval@avramzon.net> <4929C68E.6080401@lwfinger.net> <200811241049.45734.yuval@avramzon.net> <200811241155.47079.mb@bu3sch.de> In-Reply-To: <200811241155.47079.mb@bu3sch.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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