Re: Why does bcm43xx-d80211 remove the virtual interface?

2006-08-03 Thread Jiri Benc
On Wed, 02 Aug 2006 15:56:42 -0500, Larry Finger wrote: Sometimes when I insert by BCM4306 card, the virtual interface wlan1 is deleted. Although it looks completely different, it's the same bug as the one you reported on Tuesday :-) Thanks for your bugreports. Jiri -- Jiri Benc SUSE Labs

Re: Why does bcm43xx-d80211 remove the virtual interface?

2006-08-03 Thread Larry Finger
Jiri Benc wrote: Thanks for your bugreports. Glad to help, particularly as I'm told that d80211 will be replacing softmac in the kernel. I have one other problem that I cannot document. When the wireless interface is active, but never when I'm connected through the wire, the machine will

Re: Why does bcm43xx-d80211 remove the virtual interface?

2006-08-03 Thread Johannes Berg
Larry Finger wrote: I have one other problem that I cannot document. When the wireless interface is active, but never when I'm connected through the wire, the machine will hang with the cpu busy. It usually happens overnight when the system is idle, and the main activity is my E-mail client

Re: Why does bcm43xx-d80211 remove the virtual interface?

2006-08-03 Thread Jiri Benc
On Thu, 03 Aug 2006 06:35:09 -0500, Larry Finger wrote: I have one other problem that I cannot document. When the wireless interface is active, but never when I'm connected through the wire, the machine will hang with the cpu busy. It usually happens overnight when the system is idle, and

Re: Why does bcm43xx-d80211 remove the virtual interface?

2006-08-03 Thread Larry Finger
Jiri Benc wrote: Could you write details about your setup? Which bcm chip do you have (I'll try to reproduce it with a similar chip if possible)? Do you have SMP machine? Do you have SMP kernel? Do you have preemption enabled in the kernel? Do you have ipv6 enabled? What type of encryption are

Re: Why does bcm43xx-d80211 remove the virtual interface?

2006-08-03 Thread Jiri Benc
On Thu, 03 Aug 2006 07:33:49 -0500, Larry Finger wrote: Preemption is enabled, I suspect this is the problem. If I'm right, no debug info will help. Try to disable preemption first and check if hangs still occur. Thanks, Jiri -- Jiri Benc SUSE Labs

Re: Why does bcm43xx-d80211 remove the virtual interface?

2006-08-03 Thread Martin Langer
On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 07:33:49AM -0500, Larry Finger wrote: Here is my chip info. BTW, my rev 2 4306 seems to behave differently than later revs. For example, only this rev seems to have the MAC suspend problem that Michael and I have discussed at length. bcm43xx_d80211: Core 1: ID

Re: wireless-2.6#bcm43xx: bcm43xx: Controller RESET (TX timeout) ...

2006-08-03 Thread Peter Osterlund
Ivan Matveich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [interface works fine for a few hours, then this spontaneously happens] [note: the computer does nothing but compile stuff, etc during this time] NETDEV WATCHDOG: wireless: transmit timed out bcm43xx: Controller RESET (TX timeout) ... bcm43xx:

Possible circular locking in bcm43xx-d80211

2006-08-03 Thread Larry Finger
Jiri, Since Linville's wireless-dev and your dscape were brought to v2.6.18-rc3 in the past couple of days, my system has hung in bootup if the bcm43xx card is installed. Usually, it stops just into run level 5 while starting the network. Sometimes kdm comes up, but I am unable to log in as