On Mon, 17 Aug 2020 08:14:22 -0000 (UTC)
Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> wrote:
> On 2020-08-15, Julian Smith <ju...@op59.net> wrote:
> >
> > Ok i'll try building a current kernel in the next few days.
>
> Kernel and userland (and device firmware) should be in sync. It's
> easier to use a snapshot, you can install to USB stick if you don't
> want to update your main drive.
Thanks for pointing this out.
I've bought a 32GB USB stick, installed OpenBSD-6.7 on it, and made it
mount my origin /home, so the system is basically the same as before.
Unfortunately, i haven't been able to crash the iwn0 device. (I was
intending to reproduce the iwn0 crash then upgrade to a snapshot and see
whether that made any difference.)
I have noticed that when the OpenBSD system is downloading, but only at
a fraction of the available wireless bandwidth, other devices seem to
struggle to get bandwidth. But i'm not sure whether this is significant.
The only difference in the setup i can think of is that i haven't yet
installed all required firmware - i've only run 'fw_update iwn'.
According to fw_update -n, the following firmware needs
installing:
vmm-firmware
inteldrm-firmware
intel-firmware
uvideo-firmware
I'll try installing these one at a time and see whether that provokes
any issues.
Thanks,
- Jules
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