On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 01:08:00PM +0200, Stefan Sperling wrote: > On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 12:52:53PM +0200, Francesco Toscan wrote: > > Hi misc@, > > > > Network with bwi has become *slow*, slow as unusable. Every kind of > > traffic is somehow slowed. Transmissions work but they take forever to > > complete. > > The CAVEATS section of the man page seems to describe your issue. > Perhaps it's a hardware problem? Does it work again if you downgrade > to 5.5-release?
Stefan, thanks for your reply. I thought my device was one among those fortunate working chips :)) I'm looking at bwi.c 's CVS record: last commit was 8 weeks ago, I'm sure performances were suboptimal before that. Preceeding commit was 5 months ago and I'm sure in February 26th the driver performed better. This snapshot from May 12th performs better than three/four weeks ago, but the driver was not modified: can't give numbers but three/four weeks ago network was stuck, now it's just very slow. Unfortunately between last February and April I was forced to use this laptop as a rescue FreeBSD 9 system (btw, bwi worked fine there) so I have an usage blackout of two months. I'll boot 5.5-release and report what's happening. -- f.
