On 8/31/06, Michael Buesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 31 August 2006 02:25, Andrew Fuller wrote: > > 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) ? > > 64bit and 32bit DMA don't have anything to do with the CPU. > It's about the bus. 64bit DMA is only used for the PCI-E bus. > 32bit DMA is correct for your machine and card. > > > 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. > > Can you please give more kernel messages about this "Protocol Error"?
I updated to today's wireless-dev to try it again and grab a log of it... and it worked without giving me an error. So I guess it got fixed, whatever it was. If you'd still like to know what it was, I can try downgrading the kernel (will have to learn how to get git to do that). > > Details: > > AMD64, 1.2GB RAM > > bcm4306 rev03 > > I don't think this cards supports the address extension bits. > (Which you actually need to get this working). But I can write > some patch that checks the hardware if it supports this or not. Too bad. I guess I'll just live with PIO. -AF _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
