On Sunday 29 October 2006 17:28, Gregory Gulik wrote: > > I recently updated a compaq notebook to Fedora Core 6 which has the > bcm43xx driver in the 2.6.18 kernel. I followed the instructions here: > Installing Fedora Core 6 on Compaq Presario R3000Z > <http://www.gagme.com/greg/linux/compaqr3000z-fc6.php> > > The chipset is: > 02:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g > Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03) > > However, I'm having a problem where I lose network connectivity every > few hours. The connection appears up it just doesn't pass packets. I > can't ping my server or anything else for example. I have to manually > "ifdown eth1 " and "ifup eth1" to get it working again. I've put in a > cron job to check for this condition and fix it as needed because it's > so common. > > There is no clear reason for this in dmesg or /var/log/messages. dmesg > just has: > > > SoftMAC: Authentication response received from 00:0b:6b:36:1e:43 but no > queue item exists. > NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth1: transmit timed out > bcm43xx: Controller RESET (TX timeout) ... > bcm43xx: select_wireless_core: cleanup > bcm43xx: Radio turned off > bcm43xx: DMA-32 0x0200 (RX) max used slots: 28/64 > bcm43xx: DMA-32 0x02A0 (TX) max used slots: 0/512 > bcm43xx: DMA-32 0x0280 (TX) max used slots: 0/512 > bcm43xx: DMA-32 0x0260 (TX) max used slots: 0/512 > bcm43xx: DMA-32 0x0240 (TX) max used slots: 0/512 > bcm43xx: DMA-32 0x0220 (TX) max used slots: 49/512 > bcm43xx: DMA-32 0x0200 (TX) max used slots: 0/512 > bcm43xx: Microcode rev 0x123, pl 0x21 (2005-01-22 19:48:06) > bcm43xx: Radio turned on > bcm43xx: Chip initialized > bcm43xx: 32-bit DMA initialized > bcm43xx: Keys cleared > bcm43xx: Selected 802.11 core (phytype 2) > bcm43xx: Controller restarted > > > That's prior to doing the ifdown/ifup thing. > > Anything else I can try?
Please wait for 2.6.18.2 or try the patch posted here on the list. -- Greetings Michael. _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
