Re: iwm(4) broken on latest -current kernel

[Kevin Bloom <ktnb%posteo.net@localhost>]

(Michael van Elst) <mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost> wrote:

> ktnb%posteo.net@localhost (Kevin Bloom) writes:
> 
> >It appears to happen about 50% of the time when I boot my machine up.
> >I'll change that line of code and get back to you as soon as I can!
> 
> 
> I now have an AC 8260 card and see the following behaviour:
> 
> - On boot, it always connects to the wifi network.
> - After ifconfig down followed by ifconfig up, it fails to start
>   a network scan and stays disconnected.
> - After another ifconfig down followed by ifconfig up, it connects
>   again quickly.
> 
> Basically, the first and then only every second attempt succeeds.
> 
> Trying to reassociate with wpa_cli also shows questionable
> behaviour. First the rescan attempt fails because another
> scan is already active, and most of the time it then
> disconnects/reconnects continously.
> 
> 
> In either case, the behaviour seems to be triggered by dhcpcd.
> If I stop dhcpcd, then every down/up sequence and every
> reassociation is sucessful. A workaround is to disable
> link monitoring in dhcpcd.conf like:
> 
> interface iwm*
>   nolink
> 

I have tried this with no avail. :(
Everything is fine using 11.99.3 but moving to the 11.99.4 kernel
is when it dies. It appears to temporarily connect to the network
but that status never goes to active. Someimtes it will stay
connected to the network but it will never successfully ping nor
will the status go active.