[driverloader] Re: Broadcom 14e4:4320, it's a bit better now with dldr 1.34...

[Jan Slupski]

On Sun, 9 Nov 2003, Marc Boucher wrote:

> Hi Jan,
>
> We haven't yet been able to reproduce the problem you are describing
> with 'init' using 100% of CPU.
>
> Perhaps it is due to the custom 2.6.0-test9-bk13 prerelease kernel
> snapshot with the 'extra' patches (like swsusp) that have been applied
> to your system.

Unfortunatelly at vanilia -test9 it is exactly the same.
I tried with ACPI, USB, and both  ACPI & USB turned off.

Haven't tried 1.37 yet, but ChangeLog do not give me much hope.

>
> Even if we cannot officially support non-standard kernels, I'll try
> to build a 2.6.0-test9-bk13 to test (already tried 2.6.0-test9 and
> it seems to work fine) and let you know the result..
>
> Has anybody else encountered the problem which Jan describes below?
>
> Regards
> Marc
>
> On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 03:26:29PM +0100, Jan Slupski wrote:
> >
> > Version v1.35 helped much. There are no more hangs on startup,
> > I can associate with AP every time (probably because of no restricted
> > option ;)
> >
> > But now just after loading the module the 'init' process uses 100% of
> > CPU, so temerature of processoer rises dramatically, etc, etc.
> >
> > It remains even if I rmmod the driverloader.
> > The processor (or sth else) is so busy, that I cannot even shutdown.
> > I got:
> >  Broadcast message from root (tty4) (Sun Nov  9 15:20:56 2003):
> >  The system is going down for reboot NOW!
> >  init: timeout opening/writing control channel /dev/initctl
> >
> >
> > The same problems with v1.36.
> >
> >
> > Jan
> >
> > PS
> > I also downloaded the newest drivers from HP site, the sys file is exactly
> > the same as Belkin one, the inf file differs a bit (eg, has proper PCI ids
> > for Broadcom)
> >
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