PowerMac G5, Airport
Hi again,
This is another old issue, been there probably since kernel 3...
Airport cannot be used, the relevant dmesg output is following:
[ 8.093462] b43-phy0: Broadcom 4306 WLAN found (core revision 5)
[ 8.189942] Registered led device: b43-phy0::tx
[ 8.189990] Registered led device: b43-phy0::rx
[ 8.190037] Registered led device: b43-phy0::radio
[ 27.657785] b43 ssb0:0: firmware: agent loaded b43/ucode5.fw into memory
[ 27.694619] b43 ssb0:0: firmware: agent loaded b43/pcm5.fw into memory
[ 27.737501] b43 ssb0:0: firmware: agent loaded b43/b0g0initvals5.fw
into memory
[ 27.764976] b43 ssb0:0: firmware: agent loaded
b43/b0g0bsinitvals5.fw into memory
[ 27.876854] b43-phy0: Loading firmware version 666.2 (2011-02-23 01:15:07)
[ 27.936931] b43-pci-bridge 0001:05:01.0: Warning: IOMMU window too
big for device mask
[ 27.937488] b43-pci-bridge 0001:05:01.0: mask: 0x3fffffff, table
end: 0x80000000
[ 27.937995] b43-phy0 ERROR: The machine/kernel does not support the
required 30-bit DMA mask
[ 29.056940] b43-phy0 ERROR: Microcode not responding
The key is the "required 30-bit DMA mask".
Looks like this happens only with more than 1 GB on RAM (see BTS #742555).
The machine is PowerMac7,3 (2x1.8 GHz) and the OS is up-to-date Wheezy (7.7).
Anyone else using Airport with this kind of machine?
Risto
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