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: [email protected] 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.
