I did: service acpid stop service acpi-support stop (and service dell-laptop stop) processor was not loaded (I didn't blacklist it though). Still, after a minute of using the card, DMA errors occured. BIOS: It wouldn't tell me anything besides A11. It says to be a DELL bios (do they make their own bioses or just rebrand them?). 2009/11/1 Gábor Stefanik <netrolller.3d@xxxxxxxxx>: > On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Thomas Wiecki > <thomas.wiecki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> 0c:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 >> 802.11b/g [14e4:4315] (rev 01) >> Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:000c] >> Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17 >> Memory at f1ffc000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] >> Capabilities: <access denied> >> Kernel driver in use: wl >> Kernel modules: wl, ssb >> >> A variable delay after loading the most recent b43 driver I get a lot >> of (I hope last nights patches would have fixed the problems, but they >> didn't): >> [ 6895.111946] b43-phy0 ERROR: Fatal DMA error: 0x00000800, >> 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000 >> [ 6895.111955] b43-phy0: Controller RESET (DMA error) ... >> [ 6895.336490] b43-phy0: Loading firmware version 478.104 (2008-07-01 00:50:23) >> [ 6900.841372] b43-phy0: Controller restarted >> >> After installing the driver for the first time, I have a few minutes I >> can use the wifi card, after that the DMA errors start to occur. Once >> they occured after the first loading, they appear immediatly after >> each loading. >> >> Ubuntu 9.04 (most recent) with kernel 2.6.31-14-generic >> >> Laptop is Dell E6500. >> -- >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in >> the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >> > > Does noacpi/noapic or blacklisting module "processor" have any effect on this? > > Also, is this on PhoenixBIOS? > > -- > Vista: [V]iruses, [I]ntruders, [S]pyware, [T]rojans and [A]dware. :-) > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
