Re: b43 driver hang with bcm4318

["Gábor Stefanik" <netrolller.3d@gmail.com>]

Please load b43 with verbose debug messages enabled (use the "verbose"
module parameter - check modinfo for the exact value for full debug
output), and post the resulting logs.

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 2:40 AM, Eric Volker <evolker@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have set up an access point with Ubuntu 9.10 and a Broadcom BCM4318
> PCI card (manufacturer is Buffalo). After an undetermined period of
> time, the card stops beaconing and even previously connected clients are
> unable to ping the AP. After the driver hangs, trying to restart hostapd
> fails with a "Failed to create mon.wlan0". The following commands:
>
> #rmmod b43
> #modprobe b43
> #/etc/init.d/hostapd restart
>
> will restart hostapd, and the AP will begin beaconing again. Clients can
> associate with it, but are unable to ping the AP. Further examination
> reveals that wlan0 on the AP has not been assigned an IP address. (My AP
> does not have a DHCP daemon running as of yet; I've been manually
> configuring the IP address of my clients.) Using ifconfig to assign the
> IP address appears to work, but clients are still unable to ping the AP.
> dmesg reveals no message from the b43 or other drivers about the hang;
> however, upon restarting hostapd the driver appears to create a new
> "phy".
>
> [71500.473241] b43-phy1: Broadcom 4318 WLAN found (core revision 9)
> [71500.540847] phy1: Selected rate control algorithm 'minstrel'
> [71500.542002] Broadcom 43xx driver loaded [ Features: PL, Firmware-ID:
> FW13 ]
> [71543.312030] b43 ssb0:0: firmware: requesting b43/ucode5.fw
> [71543.410639] b43 ssb0:0: firmware: requesting b43/pcm5.fw
> [71543.430040] b43 ssb0:0: firmware: requesting b43/b0g0initvals5.fw
> [71543.440062] b43 ssb0:0: firmware: requesting b43/b0g0bsinitvals5.fw
> [71543.564029] b43-phy1: Loading firmware version 410.2160 (2007-05-26
> 15:32:10)
> [71543.604432] Registered led device: b43-phy1::tx
> [71543.604459] Registered led device: b43-phy1::rx
> [71543.604485] Registered led device: b43-phy1::radio
> [71554.360009] wlan0: no IPv6 routers present
>
> Further back in the log, it can be seen where b43-phy0 was created, but
> there is no record of the driver crashing or any other errors.
> daemon.log does have several entries like this:
>
> Jan 17 15:48:24 hostname avahi-daemon[759]: Invalid query packet.
> Jan 17 15:49:33 hostname avahi-daemon[759]: last message repeated 2
> times
>
> Rebooting fixes the problem completely, but only temporarily. Anyone
> seen this before, or have a suggested fix?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Eric Volker
>
>
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