From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267607AbUHVWRn (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Aug 2004 18:17:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267610AbUHVWRn (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Aug 2004 18:17:43 -0400 Received: from ee.oulu.fi ([130.231.61.23]:23499 "EHLO ee.oulu.fi") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267607AbUHVWRi (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Aug 2004 18:17:38 -0400 Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 01:17:34 +0300 From: Pekka Pietikainen To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: bruceg@em.ca Subject: Re: Broadcom 4401 problem Message-ID: <20040822221734.GA10372@ee.oulu.fi> References: <20040822205346.GA17895@em.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040822205346.GA17895@em.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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