Bug#489990: linux-image-2.6.25-2-amd64: b43 Error loading microcode following Hibernate

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 10:43:17PM -0400, Ian MacDonald wrote:
> Package: linux-image-2.6.25-2-amd64
> Version: 2.6.25-6
> Severity: normal
> 
> Although my architecture is different(AMD/MCP51), I am experiencing exactly the problem described in #482153.
> 
> My broadcom device is
> 
>  03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11a/b/g (rev 01)
> 
> After hibernate, I receive the following message.  Unloading b43 results in a hard lock-up.
> Reboot seems to be the only way to re-enable the wireless card.
> 
>  b43-phy0 ERROR: Microcode not responding
> 
> As shown below, my firmware is the latest (4.150.10.5)
> 
>  [   11.484587] b43-phy0: Broadcom 4311 WLAN found
>  [   38.422374] input: b43-phy0 as /class/input/input10
>  [   38.829277] b43-phy0: Loading firmware version 410.2160 (2007-05-26 15:32:10)
>  [   40.021541] Registered led device: b43-phy0::tx
>  [   40.021596] Registered led device: b43-phy0::rx
>  [   40.021639] Registered led device: b43-phy0::radio
> 
> Prior to 2.6.25 an RTC bug prevented any kind of hibernate stability on my hardware (dv9000z), so there are
> not many options for other AMD/HP Pavillion 9000z users.
> 
> Suspend S3 works great every time.

Does this error still occur with more recent kernel versions?

Cheers,
        Moritz