Re: kern/44060: iwn wireless works for awhile, then fails

[Donald Allen <donaldcallen%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 2:59 PM, Christos Zoulas 
<christos%zoulas.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> On Nov 13,  7:33am, donaldcallen%gmail.com@localhost (Donald Allen) wrote:
> -- Subject: Re: kern/44060: iwn wireless works for awhile, then fails
>
> | I really think that the best way to debug this is for someone who knows the
> | iwn driver to get in touch with me so that we can arrange a session together
> | where I supply the problem and fingers and (s)he supplies the knowledge.
> | Either that or someone who understands this driver needs to reproduce the
> | problem herself.
>
> Can you try booting a current kernel and see if that fixes the driver?
> If you set COMPAT_50 in the kernel, it should work. There have been
> extensive changes to if_iwn since netbsd-5 and while the changes can
> be backported, it would be nice to know if backporting will fix the
> problem.

I received a message earlier today from Sverre Froyen, who suggested
the same thing. I diff'ed the 5.1 and 'current' versions of if_iwn.c
and clearly major changes have occurred. I will take your (and
Sverre's) advice and install 'current'. I  will let you know how that
version of the driver performs on my machine.

/Don


> christos
>