linux-kernel - Re: BCM4312 Fails when xdm is started

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Date:	Sun, 07 Dec 2008 10:15:38 -0600
From:	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>
To:	Yuval Hager <yuval@...amzon.net>
CC:	Peter Stuge <peter@...ge.se>,
	wireless <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Michael Buesch <mb@...sch.de>, bcm43xx-dev@...ts.berlios.de
Subject: Re: BCM4312 Fails when xdm is started

Yuval Hager wrote:
> 
> This issue has been tracked down to be at the openchrome driver. It appears 
> that somehow it corrupted the PCI bus, and damaged the device right after the 
> video card - the wireless card. 
> 
> The current workaround for this is here - 
> http://wiki.openchrome.org/pipermail/openchrome-devel/2008-November/000139.html - 
> but this is just a quick hack, not a fix, although it works great for me. The 
> openchrome team is working on a patch based on this.
> 
> Thanks for all the help - I am a very happy HP2133 user, and a very happy 
> community member. This was an amazing opensource support experience, which 
> I'll remember for a long time. Thank you all!

Thanks for the feedback. The community may struggle a bit on some problems, and
the approach to a solution may look like a drunken sailor's walk, but we usually
get there.

Larry

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