Hi,
On Friday, 22 December 2006 18:30, Larry Finger wrote:
> I'm trying to make the bcm43xx driver out of the 2.6.20-rc1-mm1 kernel work on
> an HPC nx6325, with no luck, so far, although I'm using a firmware that has
> been reported to work with these boxes
> (http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Gentoo_on_HP_Compaq_nx6325#Onboard_Wireless_.28802.11.29).
>
> The driver loads and seems to operate the hardware to some extent, but there
> seems to be a problem with interrupts. Namely, the chip doesn't seem to
> generate any.
> Raphael J. Wysocki wrote:
>
> > Right after a fresh 'modprobe bcm43xx' I get the following messages in dmesg:
>
> > bcm43xx driver
> > ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:30:00.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
> > PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:30:00.0 to 64
> > bcm43xx: Chip ID 0x4311, rev 0x1
> > bcm43xx: Number of cores: 4
> > bcm43xx: Core 0: ID 0x800, rev 0x11, vendor 0x4243
> > bcm43xx: Core 1: ID 0x812, rev 0xa, vendor 0x4243
> > bcm43xx: Core 2: ID 0x817, rev 0x3, vendor 0x4243
> > bcm43xx: Core 3: ID 0x820, rev 0x1, vendor 0x4243
> > bcm43xx: PHY connected
> > bcm43xx: Detected PHY: Version: 4, Type 2, Revision 8
> > bcm43xx: Detected Radio: ID: 2205017f (Manuf: 17f Ver: 2050 Rev: 2)
> > bcm43xx: Radio turned off
> > bcm43xx: Radio turned off
> > PM: Adding info for No Bus:eth1
> > printk: 3 messages suppressed.
> > SoftMAC: ASSERTION FAILED (0) at: >
> net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_wx.c:306:ieee80211softmac_wx_get_rate()
> >
> > but, strangely enough, eth1 does not appear, but eth2 appears instead:
> >
>
> Usually the problem generates an oops, but I think your problem is due to the changes in the work
> struct in 2.6.20-rc1. There is a fix in the pipeline, but it has not propagated through the system.
>
> You should apply the work_struct2 patch attached. If your computer has a switch to kill the RF, you
> may also wish to apply the radio_hwenable patch, which should cause the radio LED to be turned on.
>
> The selection of eth2 rather than eth1 is probably due to the rules in
> /etc/udev/rules.d/30-net_persistent_names.rules.
Ah, I'll check that, thanks. It used to be eth1, though, and I haven't changed
the udev configuration myself.
> When I boot a softmac version, my bcm43xx device is
> wlan0, but when I boot the d80211 version, it is eth1. I have a second bcm43xx card, which becomes
> eth2 under softmac.
Thanks for the patch. In the meantime I've browsed the bcm43xx-dev archives
and found some other interesting patches for me to try. ;-)
Greetings,
Rafael
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