Produces no output. I checked without the grep and it is only listed as Dell... 2009/11/2 Gábor Stefanik <netrolller.3d@xxxxxxxxx>: > 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
