Switching to 4.174.64.19 firmware for G-PHY cards?

chris at martin.cc chris at martin.cc
Wed Mar 2 23:43:25 EST 2011


On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 9:00 AM, Larry Finger <Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net> wrote:
> On 03/02/2011 06:20 AM, chris at martin.cc wrote:
>>
> This problem is getting more and more curious.
>
> I have two systems with 14e4:4315 LP PHY cards. One is x86_64 and the other
> is i386. I added kmemleak checking to each and have been running networking
> for about 3 hours on the 64-bit system, and 18 hours for 32 bit. Neither
> shows any memory leaks associated with b43. Both are using 508.1084
> firmware. Most of the tests were in STA mode, but a few minutes with one
> hosting an AP for the other has not shown any leaks.

I configured it to run in Client(STA) mode and I still has the same
problem.  However I did get a little more information

root at OpenWrt:/etc/config# wifi up
Error for wireless request "Set Power Management" (8B2C) :
    SET failed on device wlan0 ; Operation not supported.
compat-wireless-2011-02-25/drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c:2262
kzalloc 332 bytes
b43-phy0: Loading firmware version 478.104 (2008-07-01 00:50:23)
compat-wireless-2011-02-25/drivers/net/wireless/b43/dma.c:824 kzalloc 96 bytes
compat-wireless-2011-02-25/drivers/net/wireless/b43/dma.c:824 kzalloc 96 bytes
compat-wireless-2011-02-25/drivers/net/wireless/b43/dma.c:824 kzalloc 96 bytes
compat-wireless-2011-02-25/drivers/net/wireless/b43/dma.c:824 kzalloc 96 bytes
compat-wireless-2011-02-25/drivers/net/wireless/b43/dma.c:824 kzalloc 96 bytes
compat-wireless-2011-02-25/drivers/net/wireless/b43/dma.c:824 kzalloc 96 bytes
b43-phy0 ERROR: PHY transmission error
b43-phy0 ERROR: PHY transmission error
b43-phy0 ERROR: PHY transmission error
b43-phy0 ERROR: PHY transmission error
b43-phy0 ERROR: PHY transmission error

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