Amd64. Fat fingers...
On Sun, Apr 15, 2018 at 11:10 PM, Z Ero <zerotetrat...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I experience an intermittent issue with my Atheros wifi card or the
> OpenBSD driver for it on 6.2.
>
> What happens is that it seems to drop out of the network ocassionally.
> I am sitting in the same room as the access point so it can't be a
> signal problem.
>
> I have found that bringing the interface down and them back up and
> renewing the DHCP lease seems to solve the problem.
>
> Also, OpenBSD does not seem to realize the problem is solved until I
> test the link with a ping.
>
> E.g even after the interface is toggled on/off and the lease is
> renewed firefox will still be waiting for a page to load until I ping.
>
> That seems strange.
>
> I wonder if it is a hardware / thermal problem with the card. The area
> the card is in in my machine is pretty hot.
>
> This is a pretty minor issue and I could try another wifi card sometime...
>
> I am just wondering if anyone has any insight into other possible causes.
>
> Thanks.
