On 11/10/2009 06:48 PM, Andrew Benton wrote:
> Hello world,
> I have a Dell inspiron 910 with a Broadcom wireless card.
> 
> andy:~$ lspci -vnn | grep 14e4
> 03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 
> 802.11b/g [14e4:4315] (rev 01)
>       Subsystem: Broadcom Corporation Device [14e4:04b5]
> 
> Today I downloaded the current wireless-testing kernel (2.6.32-rc6-wl) 
> and compiled it without the ACPI kernel driver.
> It worked well for about 15 mins but then the network connection was 
> lost and /var/log/sys.log started to fill up with
> 
> Nov 11 00:04:31 doughnut kernel: b43-phy0 ERROR: Fatal DMA error: 
> 0x00000800, 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000
> Nov 11 00:04:31 doughnut kernel: b43-phy0: Controller RESET (DMA error) ...
> Nov 11 00:04:31 doughnut kernel: b43-phy0 ERROR: Fatal DMA error: 
> 0x00000800, 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000
> Nov 11 00:04:31 doughnut kernel: b43-phy0: Controller RESET (DMA error) ...
> Nov 11 00:04:31 doughnut kernel: b43-phy0: Loading firmware version 
> 410.2160 (2007-05-26 15:32:10)
> Nov 11 00:04:37 doughnut kernel: b43-phy0: Controller restarted
> Nov 11 00:04:37 doughnut kernel: b43-phy0 ERROR: Fatal DMA error: 
> 0x00000400, 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000
> Nov 11 00:04:37 doughnut kernel: b43-phy0: Controller RESET (DMA error) ...

The 0x00000800 indicates a descriptor problem. Why it should happen after 15
minutes is perplexing. If I write a diagnostic patch, could you test it?

Larry
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