Call for Test and Review: bwn(4) - another Broadcom Wireless driver

[Weongyo Jeong]

On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 10:04:34AM +0200, Ian FREISLICH wrote:
> Ian FREISLICH wrote:
> > Weongyo Jeong wrote:
> > > >   Do you want me to test anything else ?
> > > 
> > > OK.  The patch is ready to test.  Could you please test it with attached
> > > patch?
> > 
> > No panic this time.  I also don't get these messages any more:
> > 
> > May 10 23:25:36 mini kernel: bwn0: unsupported rate 0
> > May 10 23:26:13 mini last message repeated 2 times
> > May 10 23:28:29 mini last message repeated 320 times
> > May 10 23:28:32 mini last message repeated 61 times
> > May 10 23:29:42 mini shutdown: reboot by ianf: 
> > 
> > It still doesn't associate with my AP until I destroy the wlan
> > interface and create it again:
> 
> But, after about 12 hours it reduced the rate to 36mbit/s OFDM with
> large amounts of time either not transmitting or not recieving -
> 86% packet loss over 5 minutes.

The rate change to 36 MBit/s is a normal operation depending on the rate
control algorithm.  But the packet loss could be a problem so I think we
need to narrow down this issue why this happens.

regards,
Weongyo Jeong