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

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

On Nov 18, 11:00pm, donaldcallen%gmail.com@localhost (Donald Allen) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: kern/44060: iwn wireless works for awhile, then fails

| After a couple of abortive attempts to get the current kernel running
| (I tried the GENERIC binary, which panicked, leaving behind slightly

Do you remember how it panicked?

| broken file-systems, and tried building from source, which complained
| about my version of config being too old), I thought some more about

Yes, you just have to build and install a current version of config.

| this. If what is in current now is a port of the OpenBSD driver, then
| we know it works on my machine, because I ran OpenBSD on this hardware
| for a time. And it works for you (Christos) in NetBSD current. So I
| don't think it's a good use of my time to try to prove that something
| works that is already known to work.

Yes, that's true.
 
| And I have a Plan B for running 5.1 on this machine: an Atheros-based
| PCMCIA wireless card, which works well.

Ok, then. I guess we are set for now. Not to happy about the way we are
set though.

christos