On Saturday 06 January 2007 03:28, Larry Finger wrote: > Michael, > > With your experience with the bcm43xx and other drivers, I hope you can help > me. With my new Turion > 64 X2 laptop with a Dell 1390 (BCM4311) wireless card, I am getting no > transmissions. I don't know > about received data. If I let it try to scan long enough, I get lots of the > following messages logged: > > bcm43xx: Out of DMA descriptor slots! > > When I shut the card down, I get the following slot usage: > > bcm43xx: DMA-32 0x0200 (RX) max used slots: 0/64 > 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: 512/512 > bcm43xx: DMA-32 0x0200 (TX) max used slots: 0/512 > > Obviously, the TX DMA is not getting through. I'm running an x86_64 system. > The behavior is the same > whether I configure SMP or not. This card will not work in PIO mode, so I > cannot test it that way. > I'm a little reluctant to reload an i386 system, but I could if necessary.
knoppix or something? > When I boot the wireless-dev kernel, it works. I have looked at the > differences between wireless-2.6 > and wireless-dev, but I don't see anything other than the obvious design > differences. > > Have you seen anything like this before? If so, where should I look? I didn't > want to bother you, > but I'm not making any headway. > You aren't getting TX status interrupts. Why? Well, dunno. v4 firmware perhaps. -- Greetings Michael. _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
