[driverloader] Re: [LinuxR3000] Broadcom 54g + FC3 + 1.5 G = 100%

[eherget at bellsouth.net]

Forgot to mention...

I can get the system to work properly by doing the following:
 - boot my laptop with wireless turned off (it "remembers" its state from previous session)
 - after the system boots, as root, run `dldrconfig --kernel` to rebuild
 - then hit the button above the keyboard to turn wireless on
 - then restart the network - `/etc/rc.d/network restart`

Eric


> 
> From: <eherget at bellsouth.net>
> Date: 2005/03/24 Thu AM 11:57:14 EST
> To: <driverloader at lists.linuxant.com>
> Subject: Re: [driverloader] Re: [LinuxR3000] Broadcom 54g + FC3 + 1.5 G = 100%
> 
> Hi Prarit,
> 
> I have also reported this problem a few weeks ago.  I have a HP Pavilion zv5340us laptop with Broadcom 54g card.  In my case, all worked fine with 500MB of memory (2x256MB memory modules), but I got the 100%CPU usage issue when I replaced one 256MB module with a 1GB memory module.  I've even tried moving the 1GB module to the 2nd memory slot (requires some dis/reassembly of the laptop to get to it under the keyboard).
> 
> You mentioned that you think its a problem with the driver itself.  That may be a possibility, as I expect the 64-bit Broadcom driver to be in some sort of pre-release state.  And HP likely modifies the driver for its use.  For example, there's a lighted button above my keyboard to turn the wireless feature on and off.  In 32-bit windows using drivers provided by HP, the light is on constant when the wireless device is on.  In 64-bit windows with the same driver we're using in driverloader, the light only flickers as data is being tranmitted/received.  I suspect (hope) HP will modify this once they officially support 64-bit Windows to have the light stay on constant when the wireless feature is on.
> 
> In any case, there are other indications that the problem may not be in the driver.  Under earlier versions of the linux kernel (2.6.8-24.11 - from updated SuSE 9.1), my system would lockup completely instead of just hogging the CPU.  I had to hard cycle the laptop to recover.  In addition, the driver works fine under 64-bit Windows (the latest beta version available at M$ website) with all of my different memory configs.
> 
> I was originally thinking the issue might have something to do with unequal memory modules in the 2 memory slots and some interaction between the linux kernel and the memory hardware/controller.  However, if you've got 2GB of memory, I assume you have equal (1GB each) memory modules in the 2 slots.
> 
> Since the behavior is different between linux kernel versions <= 2.6.8-24.11 vs. >= 2.6.10xxx, at least part of the problem may lie with the kernel itself.  There could even be some hardware issues (timing, BIOS, etc) involved.
> 
> Eric
> 
> 
> > 
> > From: Prarit Bhargava <prarit at sgi.com>
> > Date: 2005/03/24 Thu AM 10:46:01 EST
> > To: "Linux on AMD64 laptops (Compaq R3000 and HP zv5000)" <linuxr3000 at lists.pcxperience.com>, 
> > 	driverloader at lists.linuxant.com
> > Subject: [driverloader] Re: [LinuxR3000] Broadcom 54g + FC3 + 1.5 G = 100%
> > 	CPU usage?
> > 
> > Good point.  The fact that it's happening both on ndiswrapper and 
> > Linuxant's driverloader indicates an issue with the driver itself.
> > 
> > Also, another thought occurs to me .... My laptop is BRAND NEW (1 week 
> > old).  They ship these things with up to 2 G memory ... wouldn't you 
> > think that HP/Compaq would have seen this problem already? 
> > 
> > P.
> > 
> > P. Scott DeVos wrote:
> > 
> > > Assuming the problem isn't with the driver itself...
> > 
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