From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 21 23:59:27 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE0411065673 for ; Wed, 21 Dec 2011 23:59:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ramirocaso08@gmail.com) Received: from mail-yx0-f182.google.com (mail-yx0-f182.google.com [209.85.213.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68A068FC13 for ; Wed, 21 Dec 2011 23:59:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yenl9 with SMTP id l9so5963134yen.13 for ; Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:59:26 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=M375YP4DS7ZMlDBxuwLLAd3F9K7KRrIKMpQOZcSeVJA=; b=OMRA4WnkdE2WjZWBPySwQW4DCp+JzcGDOD/WKJW++qr7ci2zlyTgOJQR+AWXbjPhLs S8hotuvuKhHo7NFXV/CXIlGYMhTWTYVAyJqIIoWIal+81mBrD9Oqt1S4aBfvcyLErHc5 LlnYMc/gW/fbVocDeCBKhZw5Urf1wlMvUIddg= Received: by 10.236.140.36 with SMTP id d24mr12209433yhj.84.1324511966724; Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:59:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.102] ([200.115.196.181]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id j21sm18744084ann.0.2011.12.21.15.59.24 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:59:25 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4EF272CD.9060906@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 20:59:09 -0300 From: Ramiro Caso User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.24) Gecko/20111220 Thunderbird/3.1.16 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: DMA problems with Broadcom 4312 under FreeBSD 9.0-RC3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 23:59:27 -0000 I have a Broadcom BCM4312 LP PHY that is giving me a hard time. I installed FreeBSD 9.0-RC3 a few days ago and it was working just fine. Here is the card info: Dec 21 13:06:12 apeiron kernel: siba_bwn0: mem 0xf6cfc000-0xf6cfffff irq 17 at device 0.0 on pci12 Dec 21 13:06:12 apeiron kernel: bwn0 on siba_bwn0 Dec 21 13:06:12 apeiron kernel: bwn0: WLAN (chipid 0x4312 rev 15) PHY (analog 6 type 5 rev 1) RADIO (manuf 0x17f ver 0x2062 rev 2) Dec 21 13:06:12 apeiron kernel: bwn0: DMA (64 bits) Dec 21 13:06:12 apeiron kernel: bwn0: Using 1 MSI messages Dec 21 13:06:12 apeiron kernel: wlan0: Ethernet address: 00:24:2b:b0:d6:a4 As I said, it used to work perfectly fine with the usual setup: if_bwn_load="YES" wlan_ccmp_load="YES" wlan_tkip_load="YES" bwn_v4_lp_ucode_load="YES" firmware_load="YES" wlans_bwn0="wlan0" ifconfig_wlan0="WPA DHCP" However, a few hours ago it started failing ocassionally, and now it fails almost all the time. The error message is: Dec 21 13:16:42 apeiron kernel: bwn0: Fatal DMA error: 0x800 0 0 0 0 0 Dec 21 13:16:42 apeiron kernel: bwn0: HW reset: DMA error Dec 21 13:16:42 apeiron kernel: bwn0: firmware version (rev 478 patch 104 date 0x8701 time 0x657) Dec 21 13:16:42 apeiron kernel: bwn0: Fatal DMA error: 0x400 0 0 0 0 0 Dec 21 13:16:42 apeiron kernel: bwn0: HW reset: DMA error Dec 21 13:16:42 apeiron kernel: bwn0: firmware version (rev 478 patch 104 date 0x8701 time 0x657) ...... Dec 21 13:16:44 apeiron kernel: bwn0: Fatal DMA error: 0x400 0x400 0 0 0 0 Dec 21 13:16:44 apeiron kernel: bwn0: HW reset: DMA error Dec 21 13:16:44 apeiron kernel: bwn0: firmware version (rev 478 patch 104 date 0x8701 time 0x657) Dec 21 13:16:44 apeiron kernel: bwn0: Fatal DMA error: 0x400 0 0 0 0 0 Dec 21 13:16:44 apeiron kernel: bwn0: HW reset: DMA error Dec 21 13:16:44 apeiron kernel: bwn0: firmware version (rev 478 patch 104 date 0x8701 time 0x657) ...... Dec 21 13:16:55 apeiron kernel: bwn0: Fatal DMA error: 0x400 0 0 0 0 0 Dec 21 13:16:55 apeiron kernel: bwn0: HW reset: DMA error Dec 21 13:16:55 apeiron kernel: bwn0: firmware version (rev 478 patch 104 date 0x8701 time 0x657) ...... Any ideas? Best, Ramiro