netbsd-raspa# ifconfig urtwn0
urtwn0: flags=0x8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
ssid MiFibra-3422 nwkey
65536:"",0xc81111000336c6e2b40b047cd2f5ef44,"",""
powersave off
bssid 60:8d:26:32:34:24 chan 1
address: e4:fa:c4:52:ac:4c
media: IEEE802.11 autoselect (OFDM54 mode 11g)
status: active
inet6 fe80::e6fa:c4ff:fe52:ac4c%urtwn0/64 flags 0 scopeid 0x1
inet 192.168.1.230/24 broadcast 192.168.1.255 flags 0
netbsd-raspa#
I have been downloading many times the same 3.6 GB file from the
internet with no failures just for testing. I have made a CVS checkout
of the base system source and pkgsrc source fine.
Also have watched a 1h 30 m film using minidlna server in VLC over the
local network with no failures at all.
With bwfm driver that was just impossible.
Great work!
Regards.
Hello,
After a week using the driver I can say that it works well downloading
files massively but I noticed I have lost ssh connection two times (both
04:00 to 05:00 in the morning when the system was not doing anything but
sending 15s interval pings) (I left a 15 s interval ping script that
logged it in a file).Also investigating the logs of my other Zero W with
Raspbian I could see that at the precise time the network was lost in
the NetBSD ZeroW, the Raspbian ZeroW recorded an association event to
the router.
Investigating further I noticed that they could be related to router
WIFI channel change. "service network restart" a few times luckly
restores connection but not always works. I tried also ifconfig urtwn0
up and down manually with no luck. "service wpa_supplicant" restart does
not work either.
I have systematically reproduced the problem forcing a WIFI channel
change from the router and network is always lost after that. If you
return the router to the original channel it returns working sometimes.
(Raspbian ZeroW always negociate ok channel changes)
Leaving the router at a fixed channel could be a "dirty" fix.
A channel change seems to be not very frequent, so the rebooting script
when network fails could make sense...I do not know.
A bit tired of testing and out of ideas...
Regards.
Ramiro.
