The following reply was made to PR kern/34654; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Peter Szilagyi <szilagyi@alum.mit.edu>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: kern/34654
Date: 20 Dec 2006 01:35:24 -0500

 Re. testing: I had the patch applied locally to 3.0.1 for almost a
 year on my main home Internet gateway, since before submitting the PR,
 with reasonable results from my last F5D6050 dongle during that time.
 Unfortunately, before I finally upgraded to the second netbsd-4
 (4.0_BETA2), branched after the patch was applied to HEAD (-current),
 my last F5D6050 dongle died.  So, I never got a chance to test the
 patch in that context.  (I mean, the dongles still act like they're
 working, and the driver is happy, but the radios are apparently dead -
 the dongles can't see anything at all.)
 
 The patch seems to work, although these dongles don't last long.
 (Lest you think if_atu.c somehow killed my last one, I have had one
 each die under Windows ME, Mac OS X, Linux, and NetBSD.)  A caveat: I
 tend to keep them too close to access points.  Some of them were
 deployed in routers connected to multiple wireless networks.
 
 Anyway, thanks for your help.  On to the craptastical D-Link 802.11b
 USB dongles that have been waiting patiently in that box for the
 Belkin ones to die...