2009/11/1 Thomas Wiecki <thomas.wiecki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > 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?). Dell is infamous for rebranding 3rd-party BIOSes; run this to find out if it's actually Phoenix: dmidecode | grep -i phoenix This should output a line on PhoenixBIOS & Phoenix AwardBIOS, but nothing on other BIOSes - post the exact output here to see if it's Phoenix or Award. > > 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. :-) >> > -- 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
