In article <4D19118D.6040202@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >-=-=-=-=-=- > >On 12/27/2010 12:05 PM, Nick Leverton wrote: >> >> Dec 23 21:10:46 nickl kernel: [688182.007780] Broadcom 43xx driver loaded [ >> Features: PMNLS, Firmware-ID: FW13 ] >> Dec 23 21:10:50 nickl kernel: [688186.100195] b43-phy0: f535bb54 >> Dec 23 21:11:09 nickl kernel: [688205.048054] b43-phy0: f4a3bb54 >> Dec 23 21:11:31 nickl kernel: [688225.667842] b43-phy0 ERROR: f56a5f34 > >These changes were in commit #5b736d42. > >I cannot fix them in compat-wireless, but I think I know the origin of those >errors. At present, b43 is not setting up the transmit header correctly for N >PHYs. Whenever, the rate-setting mechanism tries an OFDM rate, one of these >errors will occur. We are working on modifications to the driver to fix this. >Until we get that done, issue an 'iwconfig wlan0 rate 11M' to lock the interface >at 11 Mb/s. > >The attached patch can be reverse-applied to fix the driver. That's super, thankyou - fixed the message format, rate-limit then stops the error reports and and also improved the stability ! I'll see if it can keep an SSH session up overnight, but it's looking very good so far. This is a 14e4:4328 device in a 32bit Dell Latitude. Now reporting (must get around to adding DEBUG to the driver): Dec 29 00:00:36 nickl kernel: [1127991.569823] b43-pci-bridge 0000:0c:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17 Dec 29 00:00:36 nickl kernel: [1127991.637758] ssb: Sonics Silicon Backplane found on PCI device 0000:0c:00.0 Dec 29 00:00:36 nickl kernel: [1127991.662341] b43-phy0: Broadcom 4321 WLAN found (core revision 12) Dec 29 00:00:36 nickl kernel: [1127991.732169] Registered led device: b43-phy0::tx Dec 29 00:00:36 nickl kernel: [1127991.732213] Registered led device: b43-phy0::rx Dec 29 00:00:36 nickl kernel: [1127991.732255] Registered led device: b43-phy0::radio Dec 29 00:00:36 nickl kernel: [1127991.732292] Broadcom 43xx driver loaded [ Features: PMNLS, Firmware-ID: FW13 ] Dec 29 00:00:41 nickl kernel: [1127996.256626] b43-phy0: Loading firmware version 478.104 (2008-07-01 00:50:23) Dec 29 00:00:41 nickl kernel: [1127996.353560] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready Dec 29 00:00:52 nickl kernel: [1128007.749755] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready Dec 29 00:01:01 nickl kernel: [1128016.857337] b43-phy0 ERROR: PHY transmission error Dec 29 00:02:08 nickl kernel: [1128083.486959] device wlan0 entered promiscuous mode Dec 29 00:02:14 nickl kernel: [1128089.096688] b43-phy0 ERROR: PHY transmission error Dec 29 00:02:26 nickl kernel: [1128101.280579] b43-phy0 ERROR: PHY transmission error Nick -- Serendipity: http://www.leverton.org/blosxom (last update 29th March 2010) "The Internet, a sort of ersatz counterfeit of real life" -- Janet Street-Porter, BBC2, 19th March 1996 -- 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
