On 09/08/2009 07:54 AM, Larry Finger wrote:
> Michael Buesch wrote:
>> On Tuesday 08 September 2009 15:47:32 Dave Young wrote:
>>> I tested wireless-testing b43 driver, but got "Fatal DMA error"
>>> then the controller keep restarting...
>>>
>>> Please tell what I can provide or test, Thanks.
>>
>> Is this a regression? If so, please bisect.
>
> It is something specific to his system as I don't see anything like
> this. In addition, there are some users on the openSUSE forums that
> have implemented the latest compat-wireless and switched away from
> Broadcom wl to b43 on their LP PHY devices. So far, no complaints from
> them.
>
> Please reboot so that we see the ssb output as well. Use the command
>
> dmesg | egrep "ssb|b43"
>
> That way we will be able to see exactly what kind of device you have
> and what revisions are in it. AFAIK, the testing to date has been
> limited to Rev 1 PHYs and Rev 2 radios.
>
> Larry
>

I can confirm the same issue.  I have a HP Mini 1116NR with a Broadcom 4312.  Looks to be a PHY 1, Radio 2:

--snip--
[  456.165296] b43-phy0 debug: Found PHY: Analog 6, Type 5, Revision 1
[  456.165364] b43-phy0 debug: Found Radio: Manuf 0x17F, Version 0x2062, Revision 2
--snip--

I've attached the output of 'dmesg | egrep "ssb|b43"', my kernel config, and lspci -vv and lspci -nn

Note: With the dmesg output, I had unloaded the b43 module previous 'modprobe -r b43' and then loaded it again with debug output: 'modprobe b43 verbose=3'

John Daiker