Ehud Gavron wrote: > Ok, so I was bored... and installed the 2.6.21 kernel. > I then patch -p1 < combined_2.6.21.patch > make > make modules_install > make install > sync && reboot -f > > The bcm43xx modules reports associated... scanning... associated... with > another message in the middle, about once every half second without > stopping. > The dmesg shows radio on, link not ready, link associated, radio off, > [repeats] > > At this point it appears to be a race condition to unload the bcm43xx > module. A simple ifdown eth1 && rmmod bcm43xx will either succeed, or > crash (and crash is either the system is frozen, or a kernel panic). An > rmmod bcm43xx without the ifdown triggers similar responses.
I cannot reproduce your problem using my 4311. I downloaded a fresh copy of 2.6.21 and patched it with the combined-2.6.21.patch from my FTP site. When I rebooted it came up just fine. In addition, I never see the kernel panics when removing the module. I use NetworkManager, which prevents an ifdown command, thus I just issue a 'modprobe -r bcm43xx' command. When you get a panic rather than a frozen system, please post the kernel panic dump. I have sometimes seen a problem when switching between bcm43xx-mac80211 and bcm43xx-softmac. The symptoms are 'bcm43xx: IRQ_READY timeout' and 'bcm43xx: core_up for active 802.11 core failed (-19)' messages, which indicate that the firmware is not running correctly. Sometimes unloading and reloading the module will fix this, but it may require powering the system off (cold reboot). > -------------- > One more note. Prior to installing bcm-softmac-sa the bcm43xx scan > identifies 13 channels. After installing bcm-softw=mac-ca the scan > identifies 14 channels. The standalone version does not have the recent patch that properly sets the channel range based on the locale setting. Thanks for noting this. Larry _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
