On Saturday, 23 September 2006 08:03, Ray Lee wrote:
> On 9/22/06, Larry Finger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > When we found the cause of NETDEV watchdog timeouts in the wireless-2.6
> > code,
> > I knew that the 2.6.18 release code would cause a serious regression.
>
> I don't know if this is the lockup you're trying to address, but
> 2.6.18's bcm43xx has definitely regressed for me versus 2.6.17.x.
>
> 2.6.18 vanilla and 2.6.18 with your patch both lock my system hard
> with bcm43xx. I've got an HP/Compaq nx6125 laptop. Symptoms are that
> it will associate fine on its own and send traffic to/fro upon ifup,
> but when I do an iwconfig, ifdown, ifup to change the access point,
> the system locks (somewhat randomly) during one of those operations.
> Well, the iwconfig or the ifup, actually.
I have observed similar symptoms on HPC nx6325, although I haven't managed
to get the adapter associate with an AP.
This is a PCI-E card so I need some additional patches to make the driver
detect it, and I use the firmware cut from wl_apsta.o. The kernel is also
64-bit, 2.6.18-rc6-mm2.
lspci -v:
30:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4310 UART (rev 01)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 1361
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 10
Memory at c8000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [58] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit- Queue=0/0
Enable-
Capabilities: [d0] Express Legacy Endpoint IRQ 0
Greetings,
Rafael
--
You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
R. Buckminster Fuller
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in
the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
