Re: kern/52895 (kernel assertion failure in iwm driver (NetBSD-8 amd64))

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

On Jan 9, 10:31pm, dogan%tesmer.org.tr@localhost ("Mustafa Dogan") wrote:
-- Subject: Re: kern/52895 (kernel assertion failure in iwm driver (NetBSD-8 

| > Synopsis: kernel assertion failure in iwm driver (NetBSD-8 amd64)
| >
| > State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback
| > State-Changed-By: maya%NetBSD.org@localhost
| > State-Changed-When: Tue, 09 Jan 2018 19:27:46 +0000
| > State-Changed-Why:
| > Please try https://www.netbsd.org/~christos/if_iwm.c.diff
| >
| 
| Hi,
| I compiled new GENERIC kernel with patch you provided. My laptop booted
| without problem. Kernel seems OK.
| My first findings and improvements:
| - Before, "ifconfig iwm0 list scan" wasn't work and gives an error
| message. Now, list scan still doesn't work, doesn't give error, but adds to
| dmesg "iwm0: fatal firmware error" message.
| - Before, wpa_supplicant were associate with ~1 min or more latency. Now
| association is in ~5 sec.
| - iwm connects to network without problem.

I guess we have something wrong there, but if this is an improvement,
we should probably just commit it.

christos