Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2026 06:47:34 -0700 From: David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org> To: wireless@freebsd.org Subject: Recent (accidental) experiments Message-ID: <ah7e9tAQsh9olq7M@albert.catwhisker.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] TL;DR: I found a case where iwn(4) apparently declined to associate while running head, but did associate & (mostly) work under stable/15. Background: I have accumulated some laptops of varying vintages and attributes. Each of them (save one, and with the addition of a headless "build machine) is subjected to a daily regimen: * update stable (/15, at this time); * update all installed ports; (heavy lifting is mostly done by the build machine, which builds packages for a couple of other machines anyway) * update head; * reboot to stable; do a few reality checks, then poweroff. The oldest & slowest of the laptops happens to be the one I depend on for day-to-day use, including at work. Thus, while it tends to get exposed to other environments, the others tend to stay at home, where there are a rather limited number of "network environments" to which to be exposed. Yesterday, I went out-of-town for work; I brought the normal "work" laptop, as well as a much newer rescue from an e-waste bin. The old laptop uses an iwn(4) NIC; the newer one uses iwlwifi(4). Yesterday the machines were running: * stable: stable/15-n283796-0e3c9cbee4ac * head: main-n286313-dfd2273d2762 Today, they were updated to: * stable: stable/15-n283801-a13800ee46d7 * head: main-n286328-ea4888e63f6a Both laptops were able to use their wireless NICs under stable/15 yesterday and today at the hotel. After booting to head, the iwlwifi NIC worked, but the iwn NIC declined to associate -- both yesterday's head and today's. If there are tests/ diagnostics to run, perhaps I could poke around a bit & report...? Peace, david -- David H. Wolfskill david@catwhisker.org See https://www.catwhisker.org/~david/publickey.gpg for my public key. [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iNUEARYKAH0WIQRCec5RsK7Enudh3yGB9MJ9AwUELQUCah7e9l8UgAAAAAAuAChp c3N1ZXItZnByQG5vdGF0aW9ucy5vcGVucGdwLmZpZnRoaG9yc2VtYW4ubmV0NDI3 OUNFNTFCMEFFQzQ5RUU3NjFERjIxODFGNEMyN0QwMzA1MDQyRAAKCRCB9MJ9AwUE LWhwAP9fVxNIaSu0BPMegSUFOsd6Ms6SRMObShgqrYhj3p4tXgD9FEtGGZQb38IJ Qs9jzEl1oWw/5cjaYnSyKoaCN2/jRA0= =L/d2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----home | help
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