Re: How is testing going?

On Fri, Mar 20, 2026 at 11:04:22PM +0000, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> to those who have updated.  Did you encounter further problems than reported,
> any instabilities, etc. now that it's been a few more days?
> ....

I didn't *think* I had anything (useful) to report; it's quite possible
that what follows is not actually useful... but it reflects something I
was not expecting, so there's that.

TL;DR: My main laptop currently has an Intel "Centrino Ultimate-N 6300"
card, using the iwn(4) driver.  I track both stable/15 and head on it,
daily.  I have had no notable issues using wireless network access from
the laptop at home or at work (though it is (very!) rare that the
laptop is running head while I am at work).

Yesterday, I traveled to a hotel (we are having a Gathering for work);
no issues with wireless at the hotel while running stable/15, but (when
I rebooted to head this morning for my morning updates), a total
inability to associate.

Some details:
Card:
iwn0@pci0:3:0:0:        class=0x028000 rev=0x35 hdr=0x00 vendor=0x8086 device=0x422b subvendor=0x8086 subdevice=0x1121
    vendor     = 'Intel Corporation'
    device     = 'Centrino Ultimate-N 6300'
    class      = network

stable/15: yesterday: stable/15-n282731-dafac65367c9
               today: stable/15-n282761-3d85a2a7a8a9

head:      yesterday: main-n284770-e220af9cee74
               today: main-n284796-33e095ee097d

I started doing this (tracking recent stable & head) a LONG time
ago (back when the FreeBSD project was still using CVS); while this
particular laptop isn't quite *that* old, it's mostly had about a decade
of service so far.  I'm using UFS+SU, no ZFS on this machine, so no boot
environments -- just 4 (MBR) slices; slice 1 is stable (15, at the
moment), slice 2 is a copy of slice 1 as of Sunday evening, slice 3 is
available for experiments, and slice 4 is head.

That means that /etc/wpa-supplicant.conf is a physically different file
between stable/15 & head, so one of the first things I did when I noted
the lack of association was to copy the stable/15 version of the file
(where things had worked) over the top of the active one; I then issued
a "service netif restart" -- no joy.  While I did not attempt to restart
wpa-supplicant at that time, the reboot (once "make installworld" had
completed) most certainly accomplished that, and I still didn't have
association.

There are links to moderately large quantities of trivia about recent
"tracking" status at https://www.catwhisker.org/~david/FreeBSD/history/
-- but note that some of that is overlaid daily.

I'm happy to explain more or try experiments as time and other resources
permit (bearing in mind that I am away from home at a work function, and
I rather need this laptop to actually work most of the time). :-}

Peace,
david
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David H. Wolfskill                              david@catwhisker.org

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