Description of problem: If actual size of memory on motherboard is <=1024M the all work OK. You may boot kernel-2.6.19-1.2895.fc6 with mem=1024M and bigger phyzical size of memory, then working ok too. But for default loading of the kenels up to kernel-doc-2.6.20-1.2922.fc7 with size of memory > 1G there is crashed by error in DMA operations. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.19-1.2895.fc6.x86_64, kernel-2.6.20-1.2922.fc7.x86_64 How reproducible: Build the system with CPU AMD Opteron and 2048M of memory on ASUS SK8N Motherboard with PCI TEW-403PI wireless adapter. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Configure WiFi device BCM4306 802.11b/g with wpa_supplicant as eth1 2. modprobe bcm43xx 3. service wpa_supplicant start Actual results: Expected results: Additional info: That problem is descrybed and resolved by Larry Finger`s patches: ftp://lwfinger.dynalias.org/patches/
*** Bug 228664 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I have most of Larry's patches available in the test kernels here: http://people.redhat.com/linville/kernels/fc6/ Please give them a try and post the results here...thanks!
(In reply to comment #2) > I have most of Larry's patches available in the test kernels here: > > http://people.redhat.com/linville/kernels/fc6/ > > Please give them a try and post the results here...thanks! Ok, kernel-2.6.19-1.2895.6.1.fc6.jwltest.19.x86_64 is tested now, and is workable for 2048MB of memory: free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 2038752 576064 1462688 0 47588 358604 -/+ buffers/cache: 169872 1868880 Swap: 2963952 0 2963952 dmesg | tail bcm43xx: set security called, .active_key = 0, .level = 2, .enabled = 1, .encryp t = 1 bcm43xx: set security called, .enabled = 1, .encrypt = 1 SoftMAC: Associate: Scanning for networks first. SoftMAC: Start scanning with channel: 1 SoftMAC: Scanning 14 channels bcm43xx: set security called, .enabled = 0, .encrypt = 0 bcm43xx: set security called, .enabled = 0, .encrypt = 0 bcm43xx: set security called, .level = 0, .enabled = 0, .encrypt = 0 bcm43xx: set security called, .level = 0, .enabled = 0, .encrypt = 0 bcm43xx: set security called, .level = 0, .enabled = 0, .encrypt = 0 SoftMAC: Scanning finished SoftMAC: Queueing Authentication Request to 00:13:46:ff:0f:f7 SoftMAC: Cannot associate without being authenticated, requested authentication SoftMAC: Sent Authentication Request to 00:13:46:ff:0f:f7. SoftMAC: generic IE set to dd160050f20101000050f20201000050f20201000050f201 SoftMAC: Already associating or associated to 00:13:46:ff:0f:f7 SoftMAC: Open Authentication completed with 00:13:46:ff:0f:f7 SoftMAC: sent association request! SoftMAC: associated! bcm43xx: set security called, .active_key = 0, .level = 2, .enabled = 1, .encryp t = 1 bcm43xx: set security called, .enabled = 1, .encrypt = 1
I really don't understand how this problem can be in the 2895 kernel, because Larry's patch for the 1GB memory problem is already in the kernel.org 2.6.19 kernel that we are based on. What additional patch might we need?