Re: Broadcom 4401 problem

[Pekka Pietikainen <pp@ee.oulu.fi>]

On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 09:57:12AM -0600, Bruce Guenter wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 01:17:34AM +0300, Pekka Pietikainen wrote:
> > 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.
> In order to try to get it to compile, I removed the PCI table entry for
> the BCM4713 and made every conditional that depends on it false (by
> removing the appropriate code).  However, when trying to ifconfig the
> interface I get:
> 	SIOCSIFFLAGS: Cannot allocate memory
> 	SIOCSIFFLAGS: Cannot allocate memory
Oh right... Yea, the code assumes that someone added the 4713 id (0x4713 ;)
) to pci_ids.h. Interesting that it runs out of memory though. The new
version does use quite a bit of GFP_DMA (== memory under 16MB since there's
no way of allocating memory under 1GB, which would do.). Apart from some
legacy ISA stuff I don't think anything else should be sucking it up, so
there should be enough, at least after a fresh boot.
> > If that
> > doesn't help, the broadcom driver 
> > ( http://www.broadcom.com/drivers/downloaddrivers.php ) might be
> > worth a try.
> The Broadcom Linux driver version 3.0.7 also locks up on me, but it
> doesn't support "ethtool -A", so I have to stop and start the interface
> completely to get it working again.
Whew, maybe it's not a driver issue. Only thing I can think of is trying a
few different kernels (say 2.6.7, 2.4.x if that fails), acpi=off, pci=noacpi
on the command line etc.

-- 
Pekka Pietikainen