Bug#500894: linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64: Broadcom (b43) wireless driver broken
Package: linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64
Severity: important
HP6720 laptop, amd64.
% lspci -vvn|grep 43 -A7
10:00.0 0280: 14e4:4311 (rev 02)
Subsystem: 103c:1375
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: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 17
Region 0: Memory at e4000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge
Kernel modules: ssb
% dmesg
[ 239.793947] wlan1: Configured IBSS beacon template
[ 239.793947] phy0: Adding new IBSS station 00:0e:2e:5c:c7:75 (dev=wlan1)
[ 239.894593] __ratelimit: 48 messages suppressed
[ 239.901010] wlan1: beacon TSF higher than local TSF - IBSS merge with
BSSID 06:b7:18:13:2a:72
[ 239.901101] wlan1: Configured IBSS beacon template
[ 239.901117] phy0: Adding new IBSS station 00:0e:2e:5c:c7:75 (dev=wlan1)
[ 269.919612] wlan1: expiring inactive STA 00:0e:2e:5c:c7:75
[ 269.928563] wlan1: No active IBSS STAs - trying to scan for other IBSS
networks with same SSID (merge)
[ 300.855343] wlan1: No active IBSS STAs - trying to scan for other IBSS
networks with same SSID (merge)
As you can see I get an enormous amount of messages (50/s) and after a
minute or two connection (ad-hoc, WEP) dies. It works fine with 2.6.25.
Regards,
Vedran
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (900, 'unstable'), (800, 'experimental'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=hr_HR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64 depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.23 Debian configuration management sy
ii initramfs-tools [linux-initra 0.92l tools for generating an initramfs
ii module-init-tools 3.4-1 tools for managing Linux kernel mo
linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64 recommends no packages.
Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64 suggests:
ii lilo 1:22.8-6 LInux LOader - The Classic OS load
ii linux-doc-2.6.26 2.6.26-6 Linux kernel specific documentatio
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