Re: Does IPv6 on athn(4) work?

[Masanobu SAITOH <msaitoh%execsw.org@localhost>]

On 2019/05/26 14:33, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> from: Masanobu SAITOH:
> 
>>  While modifying Ethernet multicast's code, I noticed that
>> athn.c doesn't modify the multicast filter. Does IPv6 on
>> athn(4) work?
> 
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>> Index: sys/dev/ic/athn.c
> 
> I have a motherboard from 2013 by MSI (MPOWER) that has an onboard athn (Atheros 9271) wi-fi chip, (quasi-)USB.
> 
> It has worked sporadically in the past on NetBSD, but now and for some time causes the boot to hang unless I disable athn through userconf.

Interesting.

I'll get USB athn(4) and will test the stability.

martin@ reported me that IPv6 works with the current athn(4) for him
and he didn't see any bad influence with my patch. I'll commit the
diff.

 Thanks all.


> I never thought to look in sys/dev/ic .
> 
> If this is updated, I'd like to try on amd64 and i386 current to see if this wi-fi chip can be made to work under NetBSD.
> 
> Just for comparison, no support at all in FreeBSD.
> 
> Tom
> 


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