User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.1) Gecko/20090717 Fedora/3.5.1-3.fc11 Firefox/3.5.1 I am using a Linksys PCMCIA wireless card, which is model WPC54GS at version 2, on a Fedora 11 system installed on a Thinkpad T42. When I am using the b43 kernel module in conjunction with the b43-openfwwf firmware, I frequently observe the system panic when there is heavy amounts of network activity on the wireless card interface. Empirically, this issue only seems to happen when the card is associated with the residential wireless network broadcast by the Actiontec MI424WR wireless router, and it does not occur when using the Broadcom firmware extracted according to the instructions from http://www.linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#device_firmware. I can most consistently cause a crash by using the speed testing service at http://www.speedtest.net/ to stress test the wireless interface. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install b43-openfwwf to get the wireless card operational. 2. Visit http://www.speedtest.net/ for an easy way to stress test the card. 3. Start a speed test. The kernel should panic shortly after the test is begun. Actual Results: The system halts with a kernel panic. Expected Results: The system should not crash. I captured the resulting kernel panic using netconsole, since the system did not switch to a text console when the panic occurred. The information from lspci -vv regarding the card is: 03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02) Subsystem: Linksys Device 0049 Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 64 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11 Region 0: Memory at c4000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K] Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge Kernel modules: ssb
Created attachment 356296 [details] Captured kernel panic backtrace
Thanks for the report! Does the issue exists with the latest b43-openfwwf-5.2 ?
Yes, I am using b43-openfwwf-5.2-1.fc11 as reported by PackageKit.
Report sent to upstream: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.bcm54xx.devel/9064
Andrew, could you, please, re-check whether this issue still exists in the latest F-11 (or even F-12) kernels?
I can't reproduce a crash with Fedora 12 kernel 2.6.31.5-127.fc12.i686, so I'm inclined to say that this bug is fixed.