On 8/26/06, Michael Buesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well, it _should_ be solved for cards that support >1G
> of memory. Latest devicescape based driver has support
> for the Address Extension bits and the 64bit DMA engine.
>
> The Address Extension bits are only supported by recent
> cards. What's recent? I don't know. But I think something
> like 4318 should support it. Maybe recent 4306, too. I am
> not sure.
>
> But I still need someone to test this. So is anybody out
> there with a AMD64 machine with >1G RAM who could test this?

I grabbed wireless-dev and gave it a shot, however it didn't work for
me.  In /var/messages I see

bcm43xx_d80211: 32-bit DMA initialized

So it didn't seem to be using the 64bit DMA.  Does it automatically
load 32/64 that it needs/supports?  Do I need to set something
(kernel/driver/etc) ?

ifconfig wlan0 up had to be called multiple times (the first once or
twice it would give a Protocol Error, but then on the 2nd/3rd it would
load).  The moment I hit enter on iwlist scan, I'd get a kernel panic.

Details:
AMD64, 1.2GB RAM
bcm4306 rev03
firmware taken from http://svit.epfl.ch/stuff/wl_apsta.o

If there's still a chance my card may support the extra addressing,
I'd be more than happy to provide whatever info is needed.  Given that
the laptop states a max of 2GB RAM, it would be rather strange to ship
a wireless card that stops working at half that, no?

-AF
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