My test for bcm4213

[Larry Finger]

On 07/14/2010 08:15 AM, Kevyn-Alexandre Paré wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Here my test for bcm4213
>
> vostro at vostro:~$ lspci -n | grep 14e4
> 06:00.0 0280: 14e4:4315 (rev 01)
>
> vostro at vostro:~$ uname -a
> Linux vostro 2.6.35-rc3-wl+ #1 SMP Sat Jul 3 20:37:05 EDT 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> On top ubuntu 10.04
>
> After booting error happen and I fallow instruction, see DMESG-WIRELESS

Please post the error messages in-line. It is a real pain to have to create a 
file to see the errors. If you cannot do that, then name the attached file 
xxxx.txt. That way I can see it inline.

> didn't work with sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter // it was downloading
> on 12 that was failling... didn't investigate more..
>
> wget http://bu3sch.de/b43/fwcutter/b43-fwcutter-013.tar.bz2
> tar xjvf b43-fwcutter-013.tar.bz2
> cd b43-fwcutter-013/
> make
> cd ..
>
> export FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR="/lib/firmware"
> wget http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4.tar.bz2
> tar xjf broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4.tar.bz2
> cd broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4/
> sudo ../b43-fwcutter-013/b43-fwcutter -w "$FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR" wl_apsta.o
>
> see DMESG file attach for log.
>
> next step try it with last 2.6.35-rc4 or later...

It will not help. For all the others reading this list, the error message is the 
old, familiar

b43-phy0 ERROR: Fatal DMA error: 0x00000800, 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: Controller RESET (DMA error) ...

If you had done any searching at all, you would have seen this error discussed 
many, many times. We do not yet have a fix. If you load b43 with the options 
"pio=1 qos=0 nohwcrypt=1" b43 will then work. No I do not know how to input 
those options on your system.


Larry