Re: b43 fatal DMA errors

2009-11-15 Thread Chris Vine
On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:42:25 -0800 (PST) Linus Torvalds torva...@linux-foundation.org wrote: On Sun, 25 Oct 2009, Chris Vine wrote: And Chris, just out of interest - does FORCE_PIO work for you too? Yes. So I've been trying to debug this, but no real luck. The Broadcom official

Re: b43 fatal DMA errors

2009-10-28 Thread Gábor Stefanik
2009/10/28 Linus Torvalds torva...@linux-foundation.org: On Sun, 25 Oct 2009, Gábor Stefanik wrote: Also, is there any reference to a failed channel switch in the log? I've been debugging this some more, and it looks like there are more issues at play than just the DMA problem. With the

Re: b43 fatal DMA errors

2009-10-25 Thread Gábor Stefanik
On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Linus Torvalds torva...@linux-foundation.org wrote: Ok, so I got myself (or rather, Patricia) a new Dell 11 inspiron laptop, and everything seems to work, except for the wireless. It's a Broadcom BCM4312b/g LP-PHY. In fact, even the wireless works at least to

Re: b43 fatal DMA errors

2009-10-25 Thread Gábor Stefanik
2009/10/25 Linus Torvalds torva...@linux-foundation.org: On Sun, 25 Oct 2009, Gábor Stefanik wrote: Could you please test the tag master-2009-08-26 from wireless-testing? That one was the first version that worked, and in that specific build, my card (exactly the same as yours) worked

Re: b43 fatal DMA errors

2009-10-25 Thread Chris Vine
On Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:30:56 +0100 Gábor Stefanik netrolller...@gmail.com wrote: Also try apic=off acpi=off (IIRC another DMA error victim, but with error code 0x0800 had ACPI clobbering his DMA). Specifically me, and I resolved it, until it is fixed, by blacklisting the 'processor' ACPI

Re: b43 fatal DMA errors

2009-10-25 Thread Gábor Stefanik
On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 10:39 PM, Linus Torvalds torva...@linux-foundation.org wrote: On Sun, 25 Oct 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote: Ok, this machine is a 1.3GHz Core 2 Duo, so no Atom crap. Oh, and I compile for x86-64, in case anybody cares. But I assume all sane developers have long since

Re: b43 fatal DMA errors

2009-10-25 Thread Larry Finger
On 10/25/2009 03:46 PM, Gábor Stefanik wrote: 2009/10/25 Linus Torvalds torva...@linux-foundation.org: On Sun, 25 Oct 2009, Gábor Stefanik wrote: Could you please test the tag master-2009-08-26 from wireless-testing? That one was the first version that worked, and in that specific build,

Re: b43 fatal DMA errors

2009-10-25 Thread Chris Vine
On Sun, 25 Oct 2009 22:40:50 +0100 Gábor Stefanik netrolller...@gmail.com wrote: Another thing to test: boot into Windows (or any other OS where the card works), initialize the card, reboot (not cold-boot) into Linux, try to load b43. If this succeeds, then we are missing something in the init

Re: b43 fatal DMA errors

2009-10-25 Thread Chris Vine
On Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:57:08 + Chris Vine ch...@cvine.freeserve.co.uk wrote: On Sun, 25 Oct 2009 22:40:50 +0100 Gábor Stefanik netrolller...@gmail.com wrote: Another thing to test: boot into Windows (or any other OS where the card works), initialize the card, reboot (not cold-boot) into

Re: b43 fatal DMA errors

2009-10-25 Thread Chris Vine
On Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:08:11 -0700 (PDT) Linus Torvalds torva...@linux-foundation.org wrote: On Sun, 25 Oct 2009, Chris Vine wrote: On Sun, 25 Oct 2009 22:40:50 +0100 Gábor Stefanik netrolller...@gmail.com suggested: Another thing to test: boot into Windows (or any other OS where the

Re: b43 fatal DMA errors

2009-10-25 Thread Gábor Stefanik
On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 11:08 PM, Linus Torvalds torva...@linux-foundation.org wrote: On Sun, 25 Oct 2009, Chris Vine wrote: On Sun, 25 Oct 2009 22:40:50 +0100 Gábor Stefanik  netrolller...@gmail.com suggested: Another thing to test: boot into Windows (or any other OS where the [..] You

Re: b43 fatal DMA errors

2009-10-25 Thread Larry Finger
On 10/25/2009 05:28 PM, Gábor Stefanik wrote: On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 11:08 PM, Linus Torvalds torva...@linux-foundation.org wrote: On Sun, 25 Oct 2009, Chris Vine wrote: On Sun, 25 Oct 2009 22:40:50 +0100 Gábor Stefanik netrolller...@gmail.com suggested: Another thing to test: boot

Re: b43 fatal DMA errors

2009-10-25 Thread Gábor Stefanik
2009/10/25 Larry Finger larry.fin...@lwfinger.net: On 10/25/2009 05:28 PM, Gábor Stefanik wrote: On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 11:08 PM, Linus Torvalds torva...@linux-foundation.org wrote: On Sun, 25 Oct 2009, Chris Vine wrote: On Sun, 25 Oct 2009 22:40:50 +0100 Gábor Stefanik  

Re: b43 fatal DMA errors

2009-10-25 Thread Larry Finger
On 10/25/2009 05:58 PM, Gábor Stefanik wrote: 2009/10/25 Larry Finger larry.fin...@lwfinger.net: On 10/25/2009 05:28 PM, Gábor Stefanik wrote: On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 11:08 PM, Linus Torvalds torva...@linux-foundation.org wrote: On Sun, 25 Oct 2009, Chris Vine wrote: On Sun, 25 Oct 2009