In a notebook Compaq Presario V5079EA I have instelled Kubuntu Dapper Drake, kernel 2.6.15-23-amd64-generic.

The driver bcm43xx gives me at boot:
"bcm43xx: FATAL ERROR: BCM43xx_IRQ_XMIT_ERROR"
but after running bcm43xx-fwcutter /path/to/BCMWL564.SYS (the 64 bit windows broadcom driver) this error disappear but then I get:
[ 48.169774] bcm43xx: InitVals (bcm43xx_initvalXX.fw) file-format error. Please fix your bcm43xx firmware files.

lspci gives me: 0000:06:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation: Unknown device 4319 (rev 02)

I have seen that kernel 2.6.17-rc3 includes a patch for the 4319 chip.

Any ideas? Tanks.

I am having a similar problem, yet I am running Slackware 10.2.

I cannot even get the kernel to recognize my device.

In my HP DV8110US I have a Realteck ethernet & the above Broadcom, it does not recognize either one.

I have downloaded the source for 57xx and made changes (via white sheets from Broadcom), and compile, not even a warning, and tried to load the device driver and receive the same error.

Any help is appreciated.
Roger W. Faulds
DJ Wild Bill

The answer is this, all you need to do is the following link:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...&postcount=218

I just saw this "bcm43xx: FATAL ERROR: BCM43xx_IRQ_XMIT_ERROR" error in my log files and got here googling. my wireless is working fine (with bcm43xx driver). what does this error mean? does anyone know?