On 02-08-17 22:43, russianneuromancer@xxxxx wrote: > Hello! > > Sorry for late answer. > >> russianneuromancer has reported seeing a similar problem with 4.13. > >> russianneuromancer, can you check if the device you are seeing this with > also has a brcm43430 sdio wifi and if so if switching to: > >> http://jwrdegoede.danny.cz/brcm-firmware/brcmfmac43430-sdio.bin.7.45.77.0.ucode1043.2054 > >> Fixes this ? > > Judging by this error message > >> [ 7.744262] brcmfmac mmc0:0001:1: Direct firmware load for brcm/brcmfmac43241b4-sdio.txt failed with error -2 > > Lenovo Miix2 8 have brcm43241b4 sdio wifi. > > With brcmfmac43241b4-sdio.txt from NVRAM, as suggested here https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/drivers/brcm80211 WiFi connection works for me with upstream Linux 4.12.4, but doesn't work with Linux 4.13rc1 and Linux 4.13rc3. Yeah. There are three patches currently in wireless tree, maybe also in netdev tree, which will probably be included in 4.13-rc4 fixing the issue below. Regards, Arend > Few connection attempts with Linux 4.13rc3 looks like this: > >> [ 7.779370] usbcore: registered new interface driver brcmfmac >> [ 7.948487] brcmfmac: brcmf_c_preinit_dcmds: Firmware version = wl0: Jul 17 2013 07:36:07 version 6.10.197.71 (r412987) FWID 01-882d2634 >> [ 32.282374] brcmfmac: brcmf_p2p_create_p2pdev: set p2p_disc error >> [ 32.282393] brcmfmac: brcmf_cfg80211_add_iface: add iface p2p-dev-wlan0 type 10 failed: err=-16 >> [ 43.560596] brcmfmac: brcmf_proto_bcdc_hdrpull: wlan0: non-BCDC packet received, flags 0x0 >> [ 44.494422] brcmfmac: brcmf_proto_bcdc_hdrpull: wlan0: non-BCDC packet received, flags 0x0 >> [ 45.492956] brcmfmac: brcmf_proto_bcdc_hdrpull: wlan0: non-BCDC packet received, flags 0x0 >> [ 46.491317] brcmfmac: brcmf_proto_bcdc_hdrpull: wlan0: non-BCDC packet received, flags 0x0 >> [ 54.922652] brcmfmac: brcmf_proto_bcdc_hdrpull: wlan0: non-BCDC packet received, flags 0x0 >> [ 55.849565] brcmfmac: brcmf_proto_bcdc_hdrpull: wlan0: non-BCDC packet received, flags 0x0 >> [ 56.849437] brcmfmac: brcmf_proto_bcdc_hdrpull: wlan0: non-BCDC packet received, flags 0x0 >> [ 57.853150] brcmfmac: brcmf_proto_bcdc_hdrpull: wlan0: non-BCDC packet received, flags 0x0 >> [ 66.542999] brcmfmac: brcmf_proto_bcdc_hdrpull: wlan0: non-BCDC packet received, flags 0x0 >> [ 67.483115] brcmfmac: brcmf_proto_bcdc_hdrpull: wlan0: non-BCDC packet received, flags 0x0 >> [ 68.483434] brcmfmac: brcmf_proto_bcdc_hdrpull: wlan0: non-BCDC packet received, flags 0x0 > > 23.07.2017, 02:44, "Hans de Goede" <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx>: >> Hi, >> >> When upgrading my devel environment to 4.13-rc1+ I noticed that >> the brcm43430 sdio wifi on a Chuwi Hi8 plus stopped working: >> >> jul 22 14:13:23 localhost.localdomain kernel: brcmfmac: brcmf_sdio_probe: Loading firmware brcm/brcmfmac43430-sdio.bin for chip 0000a9a6 rev 00000001 >> jul 22 14:13:23 localhost.localdomain kernel: usbcore: registered new interface driver brcmfmac >> jul 22 14:13:23 localhost.localdomain kernel: brcmfmac: brcmf_c_preinit_dcmds: Firmware version = wl0: Aug 29 2016 20:48:16 version 7.45.41.26 (r640327) FWID 01-4527cfab >> jul 22 14:13:23 localhost.localdomain kernel: brcmfmac: brcmf_sdio_hostmail: Unknown mailbox data content: 0x40012 >> jul 22 14:13:26 localhost.localdomain kernel: brcmfmac: brcmf_sdio_bus_rxctl: resumed on timeout >> jul 22 14:13:28 localhost.localdomain kernel: brcmfmac: brcmf_sdio_bus_rxctl: resumed on timeout >> jul 22 14:13:31 localhost.localdomain kernel: brcmfmac: brcmf_sdio_bus_rxctl: resumed on timeout >> <repeats> >> >> The real culprit here seems to be: >> >> jul 22 14:13:23 localhost.localdomain kernel: brcmfmac: brcmf_sdio_hostmail: Unknown mailbox data content: 0x40012 >> >> I've tried reverting allmost all changes under drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211 >> as well as those under drivers/mmc, but that did not help. >> >> Googling for the "Unknown mailbox data content" error found some Raspberry Pi 3 >> related comments where users report success with a different firmware version >> from: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/hardware/broadcom/wlan/+/master/bcmdhd/firmware/bcm4343/ >> >> So I tried that as well as a version extracted from the Android install >> on the tablet and both work fine, only the "version 7.45.41.26" which >> happens to be the one in linux-firmware causes this problem, I've put >> all (Linux build, not NDIS) versions I could find here: >> >> http://jwrdegoede.danny.cz/brcm-firmware/ >> >> I've the feeling that the 7.45.41.26 version is a bit buggy / suspect to >> certain timing problems and 4.13 just happens to trigger those timing >> conditions... >> >> russianneuromancer has reported seeing a similar problem with 4.13. >> >> russianneuromancer, can you check if the device you are seeing this with >> also has a brcm43430 sdio wifi and if so if switching to: >> >> http://jwrdegoede.danny.cz/brcm-firmware/brcmfmac43430-sdio.bin.7.45.77.0.ucode1043.2054 >> >> Fixes this ? >> >> Regards, >> >> Hans
