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John Jason Jordan wrote: Thanks. I followed the forum, and simply passed the "mem=1024M" to grub. I am only using 1024 of the 1280m of ram, but I think i'll just tough it out: wireless works fine.On Sat, 31 Mar 2007 21:27:36 -0400 (EDT) "D. Hugh Redelmeier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dijo:| From: jeffrey franc-law <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | I have been running Suse 9.2 with the Linuxant Broadcom driver for the | past 2 years, with not difficulty. R3420ca, athlon 64. | | Last week I upgraded my ram (replaced the "second" slot 256m with a 1gb) | to 1.2gb total. Now, when I turn the machine on the wireless will not | run. The chip has some crazy limitation: it can only DMA into memory addresses below 1G (or something like this). Not documented by Broadcom, but what is? This was discovered two years ago. I think that ndiswrapper, linuxant, and the native driver all were adjusted to reflect this. So I am surprised that you are observing it now. Maybe you are observing something else. Here is the start of a thread about the problem http://lists.pcxperience.com/pipermail/linuxr3000/2005-March/005085.html SuSE 9.2 came out just before this. Could your linuxant driver be older than the fix?Omigod, I have the same computer and did the same thing with the RAM. My Broadcom 4306 is running just great with ndiswrapper. However, I am an Ubuntuoid, not a SUSEoid. And I also note that SUSE 9.2 is getting kind of long in the tooth. On the other hand I upgraded to 1.25 GB RAM back in the days of Hoary (always amd64) and still never had a problem with the wireless chip. I always had to redo ndiswrapper after every dist-upgrade, but it always worked after reinstalling. I also note that I have never used the Linuxant driver. Here is a post on an Ubuntu forum that I followed after upgrading to Edgy. Maybe it will help: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=340689&highlight=broadcom+4306 _______________________________________________ LinuxR3000 mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pcxperience.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxr3000 Wiki at http://prinsig.se/weekee/ Obviously, I need to upgrade from the rather old suse 9.2, however, I am using a VERY expensive piece of simulation software, my licence has run out, and I really don't want to pay to renew it, and I'm sure I'd have to do so if I reinstall on a different machine. Thanks for the help. ciao, jfl -- Jeffrey Michael Franc-Law, MD, CCFP.EM, D Sport Med, EMDM Candidate Assistant Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine, University of Alberta Disaster Plan Coordinator, Dept of Emergency Med, University of Alberta Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone (Canada): 780-266-9653 Phone (Italy): +011 39 339 3901362 Fax: 780-437-9673 SMS: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |
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