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  • Re: brcmf errors

    From The Natural Philosopher@3:633/10 to All on Sat Jul 25 15:25:03 2026
    On 25/07/2026 15:05, Adrian wrote:
    In message <1142d09$1g3r9$4@dont-email.me>, The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> writes
    On 25/07/2026 13:53, Adrian wrote:
    brcmfmac: brcmf_sdio_checkdied: firmware trap in dongle

    A quick google suggest bad firmware for the wifi chip.
    Try a full upgrade


    Thanks.

    Is that an OS upgrade or something else ?

    It does raise the question, how has the firmware suddenly gone bad ?

    Adrian

    Corrupted upgrade?


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  • From The Natural Philosopher@3:633/10 to All on Sat Jul 25 14:16:57 2026
    On 25/07/2026 13:53, Adrian wrote:
    brcmfmac: brcmf_sdio_checkdied: firmware trap in dongle

    A quick google suggest bad firmware for the wifi chip.
    Try a full upgrade

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  • From Adrian@3:633/10 to All on Sat Jul 25 13:53:09 2026
    I'm running a Pi3B under Buster (yes, I know, out of the ark).

    4 days ago, for no obvious reason, it started generating the following
    error, every minute. Errors are being logged in the syslog file.

    Jul 21 21:02:20 southwatch kernel: [10116263.760496] brcmfmac: brcmf_escan_timeout: timer expired
    Jul 21 21:02:20 southwatch kernel: [10116266.320604] brcmfmac: brcmf_sdio_busrxdctl: resumed on timeout
    Jul 21 21:02:20 southwatch kernel: [10116266.321012] brcmfmac: brcmf_sdio_checkdied: firmware trap in dongle
    Jul 21 21:02:20 southwatch kernel: [10116266.321023] brcmfmac: brcmf_notify_escan_complete: Scan abort failed

    The Pi is using Ethernet rather than WiFi for networking, and there
    hasn't been any obvious change in performance since this started. There
    have been no updates done recently.

    I became aware of this as I noticed that the daily rsync size was
    growing for no obvious reason.

    Any thoughts ?

    Adrian
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  • From Adrian@3:633/10 to All on Sat Jul 25 19:21:33 2026
    In message <1142gvv$1hftt$2@dont-email.me>, The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> writes
    On 25/07/2026 15:05, Adrian wrote:
    In message <1142d09$1g3r9$4@dont-email.me>, The Natural Philosopher >><tnp@invalid.invalid> writes
    On 25/07/2026 13:53, Adrian wrote:
    brcmfmac: brcmf_sdio_checkdied: firmware trap in dongle

    A quick google suggest bad firmware for the wifi chip.
    Try a full upgrade

    Thanks.
    Is that an OS upgrade or something else ?
    It does raise the question, how has the firmware suddenly gone bad ?
    Adrian

    Corrupted upgrade?

    That would be the obvious answer, but to the best of my knowledge, there haven't been any updates recently, and it has been running since late
    March (120 days).

    Adrian
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  • From Adrian@3:633/10 to All on Sat Jul 25 15:05:22 2026
    In message <1142d09$1g3r9$4@dont-email.me>, The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> writes
    On 25/07/2026 13:53, Adrian wrote:
    brcmfmac: brcmf_sdio_checkdied: firmware trap in dongle

    A quick google suggest bad firmware for the wifi chip.
    Try a full upgrade


    Thanks.

    Is that an OS upgrade or something else ?

    It does raise the question, how has the firmware suddenly gone bad ?

    Adrian
    --
    To Reply :
    replace "bulleid" with "adrian" - all mail to bulleid is rejected
    Sorry for the rigmarole, If I want spam, I'll go to the shops
    Every time someone says "I don't believe in trolls", another one dies.

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  • From The Natural Philosopher@3:633/10 to All on Sat Jul 25 20:00:51 2026
    On 25/07/2026 19:21, Adrian wrote:
    In message <1142gvv$1hftt$2@dont-email.me>, The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> writes
    On 25/07/2026 15:05, Adrian wrote:
    In message <1142d09$1g3r9$4@dont-email.me>, The Natural Philosopher
    <tnp@invalid.invalid> writes
    On 25/07/2026 13:53, Adrian wrote:
    brcmfmac: brcmf_sdio_checkdied: firmware trap in dongle

    A quick google suggest bad firmware for the wifi chip.
    Try a full upgrade

     Thanks.
     Is that an OS upgrade or something else ?
     It does raise the question, how has the firmware suddenly gone bad ?
     Adrian

    Corrupted upgrade?

    That would be the obvious answer, but to the best of my knowledge, there haven't been any updates recently, and it has been running since late
    March (120 days).

    Adrian

    Bit rot happens. Or maybe the wifi chip has gone bad.

    Hardware does age...

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