On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 12:52:53PM +0200, Francesco Toscan wrote:
> Hi misc@,
>
> I'm running 5.5-current from May 12 build (dmesg attached).
> I noticed a regression in bwi(4) network device driver. I knew it
> worked fine somewhere between 5.4-current built on January and
> 5.5-release, unfortunately I haven't enough informations to narrow the
> timeframe.
>
> BTW, here are the issues.
>
> Network with bwi has become *slow*, slow as unusable. Every kind of
> traffic is somehow slowed. Transmissions work but they take forever to
> complete.
The CAVEATS section of the man page seems to describe your issue.
Perhaps it's a hardware problem? Does it work again if you downgrade
to 5.5-release?
CAVEATS
Some chips are incorrectly calibrated due to the lack of documentation,
which can slow the amount of traffic to the point of being unusable.
