Jonathan L. Parker wrote:
> Larry Finger wrote:
>
>> ...I'm part of the group working on the bcm43xx driver...
>
> Could you give me an update on where things are with the bug that causes
> it to crash on an AMD64 machine with a gigabyte or more of RAM? Kind of
> a hassle to drag out the old PC Card 802.11b adapter when I want to boot
> into Linux.

Fixed just last week. Patches for 2.6.18, 2.6.19, and 2.6.20-rcX are available at
ftp://lwfinger.dynalias.org/patches. The fix should be in 2.6.20 before release.

If you don't want to patch your kernel, just add a 'mem=1024M' line to your boot options. That will
restrict your memory to 1 GB, and the old code will work.

Larry