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To: David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org>, freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: iwn(4) link down/up cycling 
From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com>
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David Wolfskill wrote:
> And here are some representative log entries for the latter:
> May 28 00:00:00 g1-241 kernel: wlan0: link state changed to DOWN
> May 28 00:00:03 g1-241 kernel: wlan0: link state changed to UP
> 
> May 28 04:31:22 g1-241 kernel: wlan0: link state changed to DOWN
> May 28 04:31:23 g1-241 kernel: wlan0: link state changed to UP
> 
> 
> Have I done something avoidable to encourage this behavior?

Might this be a USB device coming & going ? ie might it be USB bus at fault ?

Cheers,
Julian
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