Disappointment with wifi...

[Ed Schouten]

Hi Mason,

2016-07-28 21:19 GMT+02:00 Mason Loring Bliss <mason at blisses.org>:
> Hi all. I'm coming to you with a minor existential crisis. :)
>
> I've got a Thinkpad T420, initially purchased as my best bet for FreeBSD
> hardware compatibility. For wifi it has Centrino Advanced-N 6205 [Taylor
> Peak].
>
> I did a fresh install of 11.0-BETA2 the other day, and that worked well
> enough, up to and including finding local wifi and initially connecting.
>
> However, on boot, dhclient keeps saying, repeatedly:
>
>     send_packet: Network is down
>     send_packet: No buffer space available
>
> ...and of course my network is largely unusable this way. It seems to come
> and go, but I can't predict it.

It would be interesting to know whether this has always bugged or
whether this is a regression, especially with the 11.0 release coming
up. Are these devices supported by FreeBSD 10.x? If so, does it work
properly there?

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Ed Schouten <ed at nuxi.nl>
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