Broadcom Wireless card

[Sam Leffler]

Kip Macy wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Scot Hetzel wrote:
> 
>> On 2/7/07, Kip Macy <kmacy at fsmware.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I can't comment on the mini-pci version, but NDIS works just fine with
>>> the cardbus version. It would be interesting to figure out where ndis is
>>> falling short.
>>>
>>>                                         -Kip
>>
>> I'm also seeing a kernel panic when trying to load a newer version of
>> the Broadcom driver on my HP dv8135nr system.
>>
>> This driver (for the HP dv8135nr) works:
>>
>> Broadcom BCM43xx 802.11 Network Adapter Driver (4.40.19.0)
>> ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp33001-33500/sp33008.exe
>>
>> This driver (for the HP dv6110us) causes a kernel page fault with
>> non-sleepable locks held:
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks for the pointer, the "fpudna in kernel mode" may be the real
> issue - it means that floating point is being used which is very
> strange. If I can't reproduce, it would be helpful if you would apply
> the kgdb patch I'm about to send along and give me an updated backtrace.

"fpudna in kernel mode" is a common diagnostic seen with the 64-bit
bcm4309 driver on an amd64 laptop (hpnx6125).  It never caused any grief
that I could tell and may be ok to ignore.

	Sam