Re: Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Extreme (Intel AX210/AX211/AX411 160MHz) Wifi crash - 13.1-RELEASE 13.1-STABLE 14.0-CURRENT

From: Adam Retter <adam.retter_at_googlemail.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2022 21:57:25 UTC
Thanks Bjoern,


> > I would be interested to know if this is the same issue described in -
> > https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=263613
>
> ... I assume it is the same issue with the up/down/up/.. cycle.
>
> I can normally do it three times before it goes kaboom (and I have a
> reproducer for it).
>
> I have also tried to execute the bringup and teardown bits I easily can
> in an endless loop which doesn't provoke the firmware to crash.  That
> seems to indicate that we may need more state than I can (currently)
> easily produce for the endless loop.

Perhaps the difference comes from changing the regdomain (as offered
by the installer)?


> I keep poking at selective bits as a background task every other day
> currently and I'll try to see what I can do over the holidays on this.

Much appreciated :-)


> > Let me know if I can provide any further info that is not already
> > captured in the hw-probe or the screenshots.
>
> I cannot help much with the installer bits.   If you were to do this
> with a non-crashing WiFi chip/driver would you ant any other changes
> there?  If so you should probably raise that separately.

I wasn't actually wanting any changes in the installer itself.
Rather I just wanted to be able to successfully install FreeBSD.



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