From: Pekka Pietikainen <pp@ee.oulu.fi>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: bruceg@em.ca
Subject: Re: Broadcom 4401 problem
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 01:17:34 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040822221734.GA10372@ee.oulu.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040822205346.GA17895@em.ca>
On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 02:53:46PM -0600, Bruce Guenter wrote:
> Greetings.
>
> I have a Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop which has a built-in Broadcom 4401
> NIC. I am using Gentoo's 2.6.8.1 kernel and the built-in b44 driver.
> It compiles, loads, and I can get basic network traffic through it just
> fine. However, it (the NIC) locks up randomly when I try to do bulk
> data transfers (with rsync for example). I can get it to reset itself
>
> Is this likely a hardware problem, or a problem in the driver?
Hiya
Could you try the driver from http://www.ee.oulu.fi/~pp/b44-095-2.tgz ,
which has some fixes that have been submitted but not yet merged. If that
doesn't help, the broadcom driver
( http://www.broadcom.com/drivers/downloaddrivers.php ) might be
worth a try.
Also if you have more than 1Gb of memory, booting with mem=1024m
might help (although with standard kernels with a 3:1
memory layout this hardware bug shouldn't get triggered and the typical
symptom is a complete hang). But it's worth a try in any case.
The updated driver mentioned above contains a workaround, so this shouldn't
be needed anymore in any case.
Anyway, please report whether any of this helped.
--
Pekka Pietikainen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-22 22:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-22 20:53 Broadcom 4401 problem Bruce Guenter
2004-08-22 22:17 ` Pekka Pietikainen [this message]
2004-08-23 15:57 ` Bruce Guenter
2004-08-23 19:34 ` Pekka Pietikainen
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