Re: No wifi (iwn) after main-n278149-6b96e7a57317 -> main-n278156-b2ac169802eb

yo!

I took a look, there's like 7? diffs between those two commits and none of
them are obviously affecting wifi?

What's showing up in dmesg? Anything obviously weird?


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On Mon, 23 Jun 2025 at 10:57, David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org> wrote:

> TL;DR: Wireless NIC iwn was working on my main laptop with
> main-n278149-6b96e7a57317; after updating (this morning) to
> main-n278156-b2ac169802eb, it did not.
>
> Some additional details:
> * For the last few weeks, I have only tested this at home (daily
>   updates/tracking head); this morning, the rebuild itself was done at
>   home, but by the time for the reboot after the update, I was on my way
>   to the office,  so I was on a commuter train (with WiFi that uses a
>   captive portal).
> * The "wifi" LEP on the laptop, which normally is on when the wiwif NIC
>   is enabled, was not on.  I tried issung "service netif restart wlan0";
>   the wifi LED flickered briefly, then went out.
> * I rebooted to stable/14 (stable/14-n271780-0ee191f2f035) while still
>   on the same train, and was able to see the wifi NIC working.
> * The same laptop is presently running stable/14
>   (stable/14-n271780-0ee191f2f035), using wifi, in the office.  It had
>   also successfully used the wifi NIC under stable/14-n271780-0ee191f2f035
>   at home.
> * A different laptop (that I use for travel when I expect to need to
>   cross a country's border), and which normally uses its wired NIC (em0)
>   when it is at home came up under main-n278156-b2ac169802eb and
>   had no issues with the wored NIC.  (It's at home right now; I
>   can't readily flip the BIOS switch to tell it to activate the
>   wireless NIC from here.)
>
> I note that main-n278156-b2ac169802eb is just a couple of commits beyond
> the current "stabweek" point, so that may be something of which to be
> aware.
>
> Peace,
> david
> --
> David H. Wolfskill                              david@catwhisker.org
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> the wars that we end, and perhaps most importantly, the wars we never
> get into."
>
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>