Hello Larry, On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 01:30:36PM -0600, Larry Finger wrote: > On 02/20/2011 12:25 PM, Clemens Helfmeier wrote: >> Hello Developers, >> >> I have just tried the current wireless-testing git tree with my bcm4322 >> device: >> >> # lshw >> 0c:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4322 >> 802.11a/b/g/n >> Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:432b] (rev 01) >> >> # dmesg shows: >> [ 11.358762] b43-phy0: Broadcom 4322 WLAN found (core revision 16) [ >> 11.400231] b43-phy0 debug: Found PHY: Analog 8, Type 4, Revision 4 [ >> 11.400257] b43-phy0 debug: Found Radio: Manuf 0x17F, Version 0x2056, >> Revision 3 >> >> I had to apply this patch to b43-fwcutter in order to extract the firmware: >> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/b43-dev/2010-July/000225.html >> >> Using WPA2, the connection is very stable, no connection break downs so far. >> >> My dmesg log shows quite a lot of error messages (approx every 7 seconds in >> idle and more often when traffic is high): >> [ 4015.044435] b43-phy0 ERROR: PHY transmission error >> [ 4021.910720] b43-phy0 ERROR: PHY transmission error >> [ 4028.866892] b43-phy0 ERROR: PHY transmission error >> >> Thanks for your efforts to get my hardware working! > > The attached patch should fix the PHY transmission errors, which happens > whenever the rate control code tries to set an OFDM rate. With the patch, > those rates will not work, but no errors will be printed. > > You can also lock the rate at 11M (iwconfig wlan0 rate 11M) to get rid of > those errors.
Locking the rate at 11M makes the driver not output any more error messages here ,too. Thanks for your work! Best regards, Clemens _______________________________________________ b43-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/b43-dev
