[driverloader] Re: [LinuxR3000] Broadcom 54g + FC3 + 1.5 G = 100% CPU usage?

[Prarit Bhargava]

Jeebus :)

There's a lot of people with this problem -- like I told Mike, it's good 
to know that it's not me ... :)

Larry -- would you mind cc'ing me on the email to ndiswrapper list?  I'd 
like to follow the thread ...

P.

Larry Sanderson wrote:

>Finally, someone else with the same problem I've been having!  I could not 
>figure out why everyone else was getting this to work, but no matter what I 
>tried, the wireless drivers spun at 100% cpu (both ndiswrapper and 
>driverloader).
>
>I tried with different BIOS's, different distros, different kernel options, 
>all with the same results.  The one thing I never tried: reduce the RAM from 
>my 2GB configuration to something else.  I removed 1GB, and now ndiswrapper 
>works perfectly.  
>
>Thank you for this pointer - I will send a bug to the ndiswrapper folks, and 
>hopefully a fix will not take too much work.
>
>-Larry
>
>On Thursday 24 March 2005 09:32 am, Prarit Bhargava wrote:
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>>Hello all,
>>
>> I have recently purchased a R3000z with integrated
>> Broadcom 54g.
>>
>> Currently running FC3.
>>
>> I'm using linuxant's driverloader to install the
>> 64 bit drivers for the card -- I've used it succesfully for two days.
>>
>> It worked fine _until_ I upgraded the memory to 1.5 G.
>>
>> Now the process kdlrd/dpc has 100% cpu usage...
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>> Downgrading the memory back to 512 M solves the problem.
>>
>> The memory is the correct memory for the system --
>> the wireless works properly in i386 mode and in
>> Windows XP at 1.5 G and at 512 M ...
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Anything that might be helpful to send to these lists?
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