My Asus UX305F laptop has been running OpenBSD 6.5 to 6.9 quite happily.
Did a clean install of 7.0 because of the changed partition size
requirements. The internet works for a while and then suddenly can't
find the server it was connected to.
The WiFi using iwm0 has the problems, axe0 the Ethernet via USB has not
failed so far.
I turn off iwm0 using
doas ifconfig iwm0 down
and then use an external USB to ethernet connector.
I have searched the web and tried various things but so far nothing
fixes it.
The release notes for 7.0 show both DNS and iwm0 have been changed.
Is there a problem with the updated iwm0?
logs and various .conf files shown below.
Any ideas?
DaveT
ux305f$ uname -a
OpenBSD ux305f.lan 7.0 GENERIC.MP#2 amd64
syspatch is up to date.
pkg_add -u is up to date.
from dmesg
iwm0 at pci2 dev 0 function 0 "Intel AC 7265" rev 0x59, msi
/var/log/messages has repeated entries like this:-
Nov 28 09:22:17 ux305f ntpd[98379]: DNS lookup tempfail
Dec 13 13:21:14 ux305f unwind[40036]: bad packet: too short
Dec 13 13:21:45 ux305f last message repeated 4 times
Dec 13 13:23:40 ux305f last message repeated 11 times
Dec 13 13:29:45 ux305f last message repeated 33 times
Dec 13 13:29:55 ux305f ntpd[90670]: DNS lookup tempfail
Dec 13 13:29:55 ux305f ntpd[90670]: DNS lookup tempfail
Dec 13 13:30:00 ux305f unwind[40036]: bad packet: too short
Dec 13 13:30:46 ux305f last message repeated 6 times
Sometimes it also logs this:-
Dec 5 11:36:36 ux305f /bsd: iwm0: fatal firmware error
Dec 5 11:36:37 ux305f /bsd: iwm0: could not remove MAC context (error
35)
I have tried various things to try and make it work properly.
Killing ntpd didn't help.
Editing resolv.conf to add the 208.67.222.222 Open DNS server didn't
help because resolvd adds nameserver 192.168.1.254 as the first line.
So I made resolv.conf read-only.
And still resolvd added nameserver 127.0.0.1 as the first line.
I didn't have a /etc/dhclient.conf so I created one with the single
line
supersede domain-name-servers 1.1.1.1
so it uses Cloudflare as recommended by openbsdhandbook.com.
That didn't help either.
my /etc/hostname.iwm0 file is:-
join MY-HOUSE wpakey my-password
join FRIENDS-HOUSE wpakey friends-password
dhcp
inet autoconf
up
until 5th December inet autoconf was inet6 autoconf.
That change didn't help either.
cat /etc/resolv.conf
nameserver 192.168.1.254 # resolvd: iwm0
nameserver 208.67.222.222 # Open DNS
nameserver 208.67.220.220 # Open DNS
cat /etc/unwind.conf
forwarder 208.67.222.222
cat ntpd.conf
# $OpenBSD: ntpd.conf,v 1.16 2019/11/06 19:04:12 deraadt Exp $
#
# See ntpd.conf(5) and /etc/examples/ntpd.conf
servers pool.ntp.org
server time.apple.com
server 1.uk.pool.ntp.org
server 2.uk.pool.ntp.org
server 3.uk.pool.ntp.org
server time.cloudflare.com
sensor *
constraint from "9.9.9.9" # quad9 v4 without DNS
constraint from "2620:fe::fe" # quad9 v6 without DNS
constraints from "www.google.com" # intentionally not 8.8.8.8
cat /etc/hostname.axe0
autoconf
inet6 autoconf
cat /etc/resolv.conf
nameserver 127.0.0.1 # resolvd: unwind
#nameserver 192.168.1.254 # resolvd: axe0
nameserver 208.67.222.222 # Open DNS
nameserver 208.67.220.220 # Open DNS
ifconfig
ux305f$ ifconfig
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 32768
index 3 priority 0 llprio 3
groups: lo
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
iwm0:
flags=a48802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,AUTOCONF6TEMP,AUTOCONF6,AUTOCONF4>
mtu 1500 lladdr 5c:e0:c5:69:07:3a index 1 priority 4 llprio 3
groups: wlan egress
media: IEEE802.11 autoselect (HT-MCS0 mode 11n)
status: no network
ieee80211: join MY-WIFI wpakey wpaprotos wpa2 wpaakms psk
wpaciphers ccmp wpagroupcipher ccmp inet6 fe80::5ee0:c5ff:fe69:73a%iwm0
prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 inet 192.168.1.66 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast
192.168.1.255 enc0: flags=0<>
index 2 priority 0 llprio 3
groups: enc
status: active
axe0:
flags=a48843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,AUTOCONF6TEMP,AUTOCONF6,AUTOCONF4>
mtu 1500 lladdr 38:4b:76:f0:5e:72 index 4 priority 0 llprio 3
groups: egress
media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX full-duplex)
status: active
inet6 fe80::3a4b:76ff:fef0:5e72%axe0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
inet 192.168.1.68 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
pflog0: flags=141<UP,RUNNING,PROMISC> mtu 33136
index 5 priority 0 llprio 3
groups: pflog
ux305f$
