Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2026 10:25:40 -0800 From: Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> To: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bz@freebsd.org> Cc: FreeBSD wireless mailing list <wireless@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: LinuxKPI (iwlwifi, rtw8x) Please test! Important! (in stable/15 in three days) Message-ID: <CAN6yY1vpFp_z7Ee7kaAsdDiDy2OpRJQ6SK48%2BYuamt-FACKEag@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <rrn857-6598-4p6n-s63r-r824q675763p@mnoonqbm.arg> References: <r158r59-93o7-9767-1r57-805sq1s07q4p@mnoonqbm.arg> <p836qqn7-6pq4-nrq-p346-8qp5ors7p170@mnoonqbm.arg> <65165b44-b8c2-4762-b7fa-c21a70248848@benhutton.com.au> <rrn857-6598-4p6n-s63r-r824q675763p@mnoonqbm.arg>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Thu, Mar 5, 2026 at 5:59 AM Bjoern A. Zeeb <bz@freebsd.org> wrote: > Hi everyone! > > I'll keep this thread alive. > > Thanks to the three of you who have tested the last round and reported > back. > That was very much appreciated and helpful! > > Everyone else can now also go and have a try again! > > In the last 48 hours I pushed the next round of LinuxKPI 802.11 > changes which would be good to validate on a wide set of chipsets > and supported drivers. One of them fixed a firmware crash, another > one re-enabled some code again which was silently not doing its things > due to Linux KPI changes (and surprisingly most of it worked anyway the > last months). > > This time you'll likely not need long testing time. Maybe a change of > association or if you want a netif restart will be good tests. > > If the last round of changes are good, I am currently cleaning up some > loose iwlwifi ends and will push the driver update and we'll all be on > v6.19. > > After that more LinuxKPI 802.11 bits for Realtek etc. will slowly start > showing up. > > > I can only emphasize that all your testing will help us with what will be > shipping in 15.1-R. The earlier we catch possible problems the more likely > your wifi will work in the release! > > Lots of health and joy, > /bz > > -- > Bjoern A. Zeeb r15:7 > > Tested the latest and it is working fine. I restarted netif with no issues. I will also note that after the prior code having been running for about 7.4 days I noted an unusually large number of output errors; about 15,000 over this time. But I also had moved over 20G packets out of my system, mostly ACKs and related small packets as the data was being downloaded. It will take a while to see if this continues. -- Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com PGP Fingerprint: D03FB98AFA78E3B78C1694B318AB39EF1B055683 [-- Attachment #2 --] <div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">On Thu, Mar 5, 2026 at 5:59 AM Bjoern A. Zeeb <<a href="mailto:bz@freebsd.org" target="_blank">bz@freebsd.org</a>> wrote:</div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi everyone!<br> <br> I'll keep this thread alive.<br> <br> Thanks to the three of you who have tested the last round and reported back.<br> That was very much appreciated and helpful!<br> <br> Everyone else can now also go and have a try again!<br> <br> In the last 48 hours I pushed the next round of LinuxKPI 802.11<br> changes which would be good to validate on a wide set of chipsets<br> and supported drivers. One of them fixed a firmware crash, another<br> one re-enabled some code again which was silently not doing its things<br> due to Linux KPI changes (and surprisingly most of it worked anyway the<br> last months).<br> <br> This time you'll likely not need long testing time. Maybe a change of<br> association or if you want a netif restart will be good tests.<br> <br> If the last round of changes are good, I am currently cleaning up some<br> loose iwlwifi ends and will push the driver update and we'll all be on v6.19.<br> <br> After that more LinuxKPI 802.11 bits for Realtek etc. will slowly start<br> showing up.<br> <br> <br> I can only emphasize that all your testing will help us with what will be<br> shipping in 15.1-R. The earlier we catch possible problems the more likely<br> your wifi will work in the release!<br> <br> Lots of health and joy,<br> /bz<br> <br> -- <br> Bjoern A. Zeeb r15:7<br> <br> </blockquote></div><div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default">Tested the latest and it is working fine. I restarted netif with no issues.</div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default">I will also note that after the prior code having been running for about 7.4 days I noted an unusually large number of output errors; about 15,000 over this time. But I also had moved over 20G packets out of my system, mostly ACKs and related small packets as the data was being downloaded. It will take a while to see if this continues.</div></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer<br>E-mail: <a href="mailto:rkoberman@gmail.com" target="_blank">rkoberman@gmail.com</a><br></div><div>PGP Fingerprint: D03FB98AFA78E3B78C1694B318AB39EF1B055683</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div> </div>home | help
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