Replacing wireless nic on my router

Adrian Chadd adrian at freebsd.org
Sun Nov 25 19:55:53 UTC 2012


On 25 November 2012 11:20, Dmitry Kolosov <onyx at z-up.ru> wrote:

> It seems like after replacing a wireless nic on my AP only 8-based laptop
> refuses to work. It even associating fine, but did not received any packet
> from AP after association. Same time, AP received DHCP packets from this
> 8-based laptop, and answered to it. But laptop does not received anything.

Yup.

> Anyway, same laptop works fine (wireless) with 9-R, linux debian, win XP at
> livecd or installed.

Right. It was very likely the bug I thought it was - the multicast
keycache thing.

> All other laptops of my own running 9-S and working just fine. Other
> hardware like cell and tablet also ok with AP nic replacement.
>
> Adrian, thanks a lot for work.
>
> Waiting for complete 11n in -Stable.

It's highly unlikely that 11n is going to appear in 9-stable, mostly
because of the sheer amount of ABI breaking stuff that has gone on.


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