Where would be a good place to report the problems I had with b43 on my Asus wl500w and Linksys wrt54gs v2?
The WL500W never worked with b43, and I had errors such as: b43-phy0: Loading firmware version 508.1084 (2009-01-14 01:32:01) b43-phy0 ERROR: Fatal DMA error: 0x00000400, 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000 b43-phy0 ERROR: This device does not support DMA on your system. It will now be switched to PIO. b43-phy0: Loading firmware version 508.1084 (2009-01-14 01:32:01) b43-phy0 ERROR: Fatal DMA error: 0x00000400, 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000 b43-phy0 ERROR: This device does not support DMA on your system. It will now be switched to PIO. After loading the driver with pio=1, those errors disappeared, but the radio still wouldn't work properly. The SSID of the AP would appear momentarily and would be "seen" by other wireless devices around. However, it would disappear very quickly, and obviously trying to connect it wouldn't work. The WRT54GS v2 would appear to operate, but after a week or two of uptime, clients would no longer be able to associate with it, and a reboot was necessary. Both devices now operate with the proprietary Broadcom wl driver, but that is not preferable, as you will all agree! Cheers, Iordan -- The conscious mind has only one thread of execution. _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
