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Date:      Thu, 28 Jul 2016 22:10:29 +0200
From:      Ed Schouten <ed@nuxi.nl>
To:        Mason Loring Bliss <mason@blisses.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Disappointment with wifi...
Message-ID:  <CABh_MKkB08JL0mCaDQsVSHQuHOYmFMkSMcTtWwzQb-Orm1h-4A@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20160728191950.GF4313@blisses.org>
References:  <20160728191950.GF4313@blisses.org>

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Hi Mason,

2016-07-28 21:19 GMT+02:00 Mason Loring Bliss <mason@blisses.org>:
> Hi all. I'm coming to you with a minor existential crisis. :)
>
> I've got a Thinkpad T420, initially purchased as my best bet for FreeBSD
> hardware compatibility. For wifi it has Centrino Advanced-N 6205 [Taylor
> Peak].
>
> I did a fresh install of 11.0-BETA2 the other day, and that worked well
> enough, up to and including finding local wifi and initially connecting.
>
> However, on boot, dhclient keeps saying, repeatedly:
>
>     send_packet: Network is down
>     send_packet: No buffer space available
>
> ...and of course my network is largely unusable this way. It seems to come
> and go, but I can't predict it.

It would be interesting to know whether this has always bugged or
whether this is a regression, especially with the 11.0 release coming
up. Are these devices supported by FreeBSD 10.x? If so, does it work
properly there?

-- 
Ed Schouten <ed@nuxi.nl>
Nuxi, 's-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands
KvK-nr.: 62051717



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