b43: Everybody with PHY TX error, please try

b43: Everybody with PHY TX error, please try

[Michael Buesch]

Everybody with PHY TX error, please try updated firmware from
ftp://ftp.linksys.com/opensourcecode/wrt610n/1.00.00.018/wrt610n_v1.00.00.018_us.tgz
(Yeah, big tarball. It's 87MB)

Extract the file wrt610n_v1.00.00.018_us/release/src/wl/linux/wl.o out of the archive.
Get latest b43-tools:
git clone http://git.bu3sch.de/git/b43-tools.git

Build and install fwcutter from latest b43-tools.git

Extract the firmware from the wl.o file:
b43-fwcutter --unsupported -w /lib/firmware/DESTPATH  wl.o

Try to reproduce the PHY TX error with the new firmware.

Thanks.

-- 
Greetings Michael.

Re: b43: Everybody with PHY TX error, please try

[Artem Antonov]

Hi!

I've tried the new firmware. There are still PHY TX errors with my BCM4318.

2008/10/24, Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>:
> Everybody with PHY TX error, please try updated firmware from
>  ftp://ftp.linksys.com/opensourcecode/wrt610n/1.00.00.018/wrt610n_v1.00.00.018_us.tgz
>  (Yeah, big tarball. It's 87MB)
>
>  Extract the file wrt610n_v1.00.00.018_us/release/src/wl/linux/wl.o out of the archive.
>  Get latest b43-tools:
>  git clone http://git.bu3sch.de/git/b43-tools.git
>
>  Build and install fwcutter from latest b43-tools.git
>
>  Extract the firmware from the wl.o file:
>  b43-fwcutter --unsupported -w /lib/firmware/DESTPATH  wl.o
>
>  Try to reproduce the PHY TX error with the new firmware.
>
>  Thanks.
>
>
>  --
>  Greetings Michael.
>  _______________________________________________
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>  Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de
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>

Re: b43: Everybody with PHY TX error, please try

[Ronald]

WOW, no more errors, all gone. I haven't seen it in days lol =)

						Good job!


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Everybody with PHY TX error, please try updated firmware from
ftp://ftp.linksys.com/opensourcecode/wrt610n/1.00.00.018/wrt610n_v1.00.00.018_us.tgz
(Yeah, big tarball. It's 87MB)

Extract the file wrt610n_v1.00.00.018_us/release/src/wl/linux/wl.o out 
of the archive.
Get latest b43-tools:
git clone http://git.bu3sch.de/git/b43-tools.git

Build and install fwcutter from latest b43-tools.git

Extract the firmware from the wl.o file:
b43-fwcutter --unsupported -w /lib/firmware/DESTPATH  wl.o

Try to reproduce the PHY TX error with the new firmware.

Thanks.

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Re: b43: Everybody with PHY TX error, please try

[Forest Bond]

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Hi,

On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 08:32:04PM +0200, Michael Buesch wrote:
> Everybody with PHY TX error, please try updated firmware from
> ftp://ftp.linksys.com/opensourcecode/wrt610n/1.00.00.018/wrt610n_v1.00.00.018_us.tgz
> (Yeah, big tarball. It's 87MB)

Sorry, I'm arriving to this late.  I'm seeing the following:

[30447.008408] __ratelimit: 2795 callbacks suppressed
[30447.008466] b43-phy0 ERROR: PHY transmission error
[30447.008496] b43-phy0 ERROR: PHY transmission error
[30447.008523] b43-phy0 ERROR: PHY transmission error
[30447.008551] b43-phy0 ERROR: PHY transmission error
[30447.008577] b43-phy0 ERROR: PHY transmission error
[30447.008606] b43-phy0 ERROR: PHY transmission error
[30447.008634] b43-phy0 ERROR: PHY transmission error
[30447.008662] b43-phy0 ERROR: PHY transmission error
[30447.008690] b43-phy0 ERROR: PHY transmission error
[30447.384079] b43-phy0: Loading firmware version 410.2160 (2007-05-26 15:32:10)
[30447.500347] b43-pci-bridge 0000:02:00.0: PCI: Disallowing DAC for device
[30447.500376] b43-phy0: DMA mask fallback from 64-bit to 32-bit
[30447.526191] Registered led device: b43-phy0::tx
[30447.526960] Registered led device: b43-phy0::rx
[30447.527543] Registered led device: b43-phy0::radio
[30454.780114] wlan1: No ProbeResp from current AP 00:1e:2a:e4:de:84 - assume out of range
[30455.681012] wlan1: authenticate with AP 00:1e:2a:e4:de:84
[30455.682225] wlan1: authenticate with AP 00:1e:2a:e4:de:84
[30455.684847] wlan1: authenticated
[30455.684873] wlan1: associate with AP 00:1e:2a:e4:de:84
[30455.688707] wlan1: RX ReassocResp from 00:1e:2a:e4:de:84 (capab=0x411 status=0 aid=1)
[30455.688730] wlan1: associated

This happens repeatedly during file transfers.  Everything is quite slow.  You
can see that the device was reset.

Will the firmware upgrade fix this?  Must I be running the latest b43 driver to
use the new firmware?

I'm on Ubuntu 8.10 with kernel version 2.6.27-7-generic.

Thanks,
Forest
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Re: b43: Everybody with PHY TX error, please try

[Bernhard Schmidt]

Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> wrote:

> Everybody with PHY TX error, please try updated firmware from
> ftp://ftp.linksys.com/opensourcecode/wrt610n/1.00.00.018/wrt610n_v1.00.00.018_us.tgz
> (Yeah, big tarball. It's 87MB)
>
> Extract the file wrt610n_v1.00.00.018_us/release/src/wl/linux/wl.o out of the archive.
> Get latest b43-tools:
> git clone http://git.bu3sch.de/git/b43-tools.git
>
> Build and install fwcutter from latest b43-tools.git
>
> Extract the firmware from the wl.o file:
> b43-fwcutter --unsupported -w /lib/firmware/DESTPATH  wl.o
>
> Try to reproduce the PHY TX error with the new firmware.

Still getting them, OpenWRT Kamikaze trunk on a Linksys WRT54G

b43-phy0: Broadcom 5352 WLAN found
b43-phy0 debug: Found PHY: Analog 2, Type 2, Revision 7
b43-phy0 debug: Found Radio: Manuf 0x17F, Version 0x2050, Revision 2
b43-phy0 debug: DebugFS (CONFIG_DEBUG_FS) not enabled in kernel config
input: b43-phy0 as /devices/virtual/input/input0
b43-phy0: Loading firmware version 478.104 (2008-07-01 00:50:23)
b43-phy0 debug: Chip initialized
b43-phy0 debug: 32-bit DMA initialized
Registered led device: b43-phy0::radio
b43-phy0 debug: Wireless interface started
b43-phy0 debug: Adding Interface type 2
b43-phy0 debug: Removing Interface type 2
b43-phy0 debug: Wireless interface stopped
b43-phy0 debug: DMA-32 rx_ring: Used slots 0/64, Failed frames 0/0 =
0.0%, Average tries 0.00
b43-phy0 debug: DMA-32 tx_ring_AC_BK: Used slots 0/128, Failed frames
0/0 = 0.0%, Average tries 0.00
b43-phy0 debug: DMA-32 tx_ring_AC_BE: Used slots 0/128, Failed frames
0/0 = 0.0%, Average tries 0.00
b43-phy0 debug: DMA-32 tx_ring_AC_VI: Used slots 0/128, Failed frames
0/0 = 0.0%, Average tries 0.00
b43-phy0 debug: DMA-32 tx_ring_AC_VO: Used slots 0/128, Failed frames
0/0 = 0.0%, Average tries 0.00
b43-phy0 debug: DMA-32 tx_ring_mcast: Used slots 0/128, Failed frames
0/0 = 0.0%, Average tries 0.00
input: b43-phy0 as /devices/virtual/input/input1
b43-phy0: Loading firmware version 478.104 (2008-07-01 00:50:23)

Bernhard

Re: b43: Everybody with PHY TX error, please try

[Johannes Berg]

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On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 20:32 +0200, Michael Buesch wrote:

> Try to reproduce the PHY TX error with the new firmware.

This helped neither with the PHY TX errors nor with the RX errors where
I'm getting invalid frames passed up from the firmware and run into a
WARN_ON:

drivers/net/wireless/b43/xmit.c:49
(b43_plcp_get_bitrate_idx_cck)

johannes

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Re: b43: Everybody with PHY TX error, please try

[Przemek Kulczycki]

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Re: b43: Everybody with PHY TX error, please try

[Johannes Berg]

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On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 12:46 +0000, Przemek Kulczycki wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 6:32 PM, Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> wrote:
> > Everybody with PHY TX error, please try updated firmware from
> > ftp://ftp.linksys.com/opensourcecode/wrt610n/1.00.00.018/wrt610n_v1.00.00.018_us.tgz
> > (Yeah, big tarball. It's 87MB)

> If this tarball is so large then maybe downloading latest ubuntu
> restricted modules will be faster.
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/intrepid/linux-restricted-modules-2.6.27-7-generic
> AFAIK this package contains the proprietary Broadcom WL driver so the
> latest firmware might be in it too.

No, not at all.

johannes

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