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On 05/21/16 15:28, Stefan Sperling wrote:
> No reason to worry. These are harmless debug messages from the iwm
> firmware update diff I mailed out. See
> http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=146356530605833&w=2
>
> This will be fixed in the next iteration of the diff.
>
Ah, excellent!
The main reason I reported this was that I also had an episode of lost
link for long enough for me to notice for the first time in quite a
while. Again, could be unrelated.
>> There also appears to be negative performance impact, but this
>> *could* be due to unrelated issues (noisy environment)
>
> I'm aware of this problem and looking at it.
>
> AFAIK this affects 11n mode only. Can you confirm that?
yes, I have mode autoselect and it tends to go for 11n:
[Sat May 21 15:57:41] peter@elke:~$ ifconfig iwm0
iwm0: flags=208843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,AUTOCONF6>
mtu 1500
lladdr a0:a8:cd:63:ab:b9
index 1 priority 4
groups: wlan egress
media: IEEE802.11 autoselect (HT-MCS0 mode 11n)
status: active
ieee80211: nwid Getbox-EE5AAF chan 1 bssid 70:85:c6:ee:5a:af
88% wpakey <not displayed> wpaprotos wpa1,wpa2 wpaakms psk wpaciphers
tkip,ccmp wpagroupcipher tkip
inet 192.168.0.12 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
inet6 fe80::a2a8:cdff:fe63:abb9%iwm0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
inet6 fd62:ce6f:9303:1:a2a8:cdff:fe63:abb9 prefixlen 64 autoconf
inet6 fd62:ce6f:9303:1:5065:2228:bc30:7012 prefixlen 64
autoconf autoconfprivacy pltime 85765 vltime 604219
inet6 2a02:fe0:cb10:cd91:a2a8:cdff:fe63:abb9 prefixlen 64
autoconf pltime 449981 vltime 1054781
inet6 2a02:fe0:cb10:cd91:f44e:5966:bcf7:50c3 prefixlen 64
autoconf autoconfprivacy pltime 85623 vltime 604219
> You can force 11g (2 GHz) or 11a (5GHz) modes by running either:
>
> ifconfig iwm0 mode 11g
>
> or:
>
> ifconfig iwm0 mode 11a
Yes, I have at some times in the past forced 11a mode to enjoy the
relative quiet of 5GHz :)
Nice to hear it's all progressing.
All the best,
Peter
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