On 9/5/06, Hendrik Sattler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Am Dienstag 05 September 2006 19:58 schrieb Larry Finger:
> > Based on user reports and my own experiences, the current problems with
> > NETDEV WATCHDOG tx timeouts, and the device just falling over do not happen
> > when periodic work is not preemptible. These problems seem to affect
> > BCM4306 rev 2 & 3 chips. Since I changed BADNESS_LIMIT to 20 to disable
> > preemption during periodic work, my device has stayed up continuously for
> > more than 18 hours. Previously, the longest time between failures was less
> > than 6 hours, and sometimes as short as 10 minutes.
>
> I have a BCM4306 rev 3, running with linux-2.6.17.x and have none of these
> problems.

It seems to me that this problem appears only when you use 2.6.18.
I had already twice this problem after more then 10 hours uptime :
Sep  7 09:39:45 localhost kernel: bcm43xx: Controller restarted
Sep  7 09:43:09 localhost syslogd 1.4.1#18: restart.

With 2.6.17, I have never seen this problem.

Best regards,
Bin


> My WLAN connection uptime is several days without any problem
> accept those dummy message from softmac:
> TKIP: replay detected: STA=00:04:0e:90:76:e8 previous TSC 000000000894
> received TSC 000000000894
>
> Same for CCMP and WEP/WPA or access point does not matter.
>
> HS
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