Greetings! I'm a grateful Linux end-user, following up on the success of this patch. I can confirm that after applying the following patches: - RESEND-3.2-1-2-ssb-fix-DMA-translation-for-some-specific-boards.patch - RFC-RFT-V2-2-2-b43-fix-DMA-on-some-bugged-hardware.patch - v2-08-46-net-wireless-b43-fix-DMA-direction-for-RX-buffers.patch to a 3.0.1 fedora patched kernel, the problem reporting to these patches has been solved (as far as I am concerned). More than a year ago, when I started using Linux on my personal laptop, I noticed that if I enabled the feature of Intel VT in the laptop BIOS (it comes disabled by default), that it would trigger the b43 fatal DMA error, which is described in many posts in different forums like this: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=235182. The b43 driver would encounter this error and stop working from then on, until I restarted the computer and disabled Intel VT. This error would only occur if I enabled that feature. Recently, while searching again for a possible solution for this issue, I stumbled on your submitted patches in May to address the DMA issue. Then, in the b43 supported devices table, I found that my Broadcom wireless card (14e4:4315 - LP-r1) is now fully supported since kernel version 3.0. However, incidently I had received the kernel 3.0 as a Fedora kernel update and upon enabling again Intel VT, the DMA error presented itself still, not better not worse. Again, I found your recent patches to address the DMA error and followed its developpment on the mailing list throughout the last few days. Seeing the initial successful tests on 64-bit affected systems, I decided to give them a shot on my own system. To do so, I updated my 3.0 kernel to the latest in its series (3.0.3rc1?, 2.6.40.3 in fedora versioning) and downloaded the latest bleeding edge compat-wireless (yesterday) and I applied the above patches to it without problems. By the way, for anyone using Fedora and reading this, know that in order to compile compat-wireless with Fedora patched 3.0.x kernel I had to change the line #if (LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(3,0,0)) to #if (LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(2,6,40)) in the file include/linux/compat-3.0.h. Right now, I am writing this with Intel VT enabled and a stable wireless connection to my home AP, using the b43 driver. So, I am showing here my appreciation and thanking for your great work in crushing a pesky bug that was perhaps the only one stopping my computer from being fully Linux compatible (HP Pavilion dv5t). Continue your great work! Just a side note... Curiously with Intel VT, the b43 driver would start and work for some short time before it crashed, while the wl proprietary driver (from Broadcom) would not even fully load. Right now, I am writing this with Intel VT enabled and a stable wireless connection to my home AP, using the b43 driver. So, I am showing here my appreciation and thanking for your great work in crushing a pesky bug that was perhaps the only one stopping my computer from being fully Linux compatible (HP Pavilion dv5t). Continue your great work! Just a side note... Curiously with Intel VT, the b43 driver would start and work for some short time before it crashed, while the wl proprietary driver (from Broadcom) would not even fully load. -- 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
