On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 12:49:56PM -0400, Matthew Graybosch wrote:
> On 7/11/19 5:57 AM, Stefan Sperling wrote:
>
> > Testing just bsd.rd is enough. If the bsd.rd environment is too limiting
> > you could also install to a USB stick and boot from it for testing purposes.
> >
> > Either approach should suffice to test a wifi connection.
>
> Hi, Stefan. Sorry it took so long to get back to you, but I tried the
> following releases by installing to USB over the last couple of weeks:
>
> * 6.4
> * 6.3
> * 6.2
> * 6.1
> * 6.0
> * 5.9
> * 5.8
>
> Unfortunately, I didn't get better results with any of these. athn0 would
> sporadically work when explicitly set up in 11g mode, but would usually just
> balk with "athn0: Device Timeout".
>
> Sorry to have wasted your time on this.
>
> --
> Matthew Graybosch
>
Not at all! You've shown that this isn't a recent regression.
If I had hardware to work with I could try to get it working.
But I don't have any AR5418 devices.
This commit make it look like problems with AR5418 were known
a decade ago already and never quite fixed:
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: src
Changes by: damien@cvs.openbsd.org 2010/04/07 10:31:16
Modified files:
sys/dev/ic : athn.c
Log message:
txq->lastds is only valid when txq is not empty.
Check for emptiness of the TX queue instead of lastds != NULL.
I have a feeling this might fix the "device timeout" issues reported
by Rivo Nurges on his AR5418 unveiled by athn.c r1.28 commit, though
he is not around to confirm.
This is a candidate for -stable.
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