After doing what you suggested, I was able to log back in and after removing 
"mediaopt monitor" from my hostname.iwm0 file everything seems to be working 
again; both booting and internet.
Thank you so much.


Jul 30, 2023, 09:36 by j...@jsg.id.au:

> On Sun, Jul 30, 2023 at 04:39:08PM +0200, 4s6e46s46s...@tutanota.com wrote:
>
>> Starting from 01.jpg to 10.jpg I have tried to provide the requested bug 
>> report information in the form of camera pictures about this bug or error 
>> message I am experiencing during the boot process.
>> My OpenBSD is 7.3 after I had updated my machine to 7.3 with sysupgrade 
>> (just a regular update, not -current)
>>
>> My machine is a Lenovo Thinkpad x250
>>
>> What I did prior to experiencing this error (I do not remember the exact 
>> sequence of events, but I believe it was in the following order):
>> - doas syspatch ( it downloaded new 15 patches I believe)
>> - then I replaced a line in my hostname.iwm0 with something else that I had 
>> copied from doing a search on how to write the hostname file, because I had 
>> forgotten the syntax. I did this because my internet was very slow. I had 
>> remembered that I have had this problem before, and that changing the 
>> hostname.iwm0 did at least improve my internet speed somewhat because the 
>> option or signal strength was limiting my speed somehow. I do not remember 
>> the exact line I copied, but I believe it had the word monitor at the end, 
>> media autoselect, 11 and a letter
>> - doas sh -x /etc/netstart
>> - doas rcctl restart openvpn
>> - Then I did a reboot because something was not working. I believe I had no 
>> internet, and I was hoping a reboot might fix it. I also did have 2 external 
>> hard drives mounted and decrypted at the time, and forgot to demount them  
>> and remove them before rebooting via doas bioctl -d sdN. Not sure if this 
>> has any significance
>> - then after rebooting I get the message in 01.jpg
>>
>
> iwm_setrates+0x20: movq 0(%rax),%r14
> iwm_auth+0xc4
> iwm_run+0x59
> iwm_newstate_task+0xf1
> taskq_thread+0x100
>
> appears to be
>
> struct iwm_softc *sc = IC2IFP(ic)->if_softc;
>
>>
>> I believe I did have something like a "blue screen" crash during normal 
>> runtime usage at least once on this machine while running OpenBSD.
>>
>> I hope you can do something with this information.
>>
>> Is there anything I can do to fix this error and boot my OS again?
>>
>
> to temporarily disable iwm, at the boot prompt:
>
> boot -c
> disable iwm*
> quit
>

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