On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 12:34:17PM +0200, Stefan Sperling wrote: > I found that my 8260 iwm(4) device has trouble associating to my 5 GHz > AP, which runs OpenBSD with athn(4) in hostap mode. Most of the time > it won't even get a DHCP lease. Some frames it believes it has sent > are not even visible on the air. > > The iwm driver still has a copy of code from Linux that sends DTIM TSF > information to the firmware. I believe this depends on Linux mac80211 > behaviour details and is bogus with our stack, and we should just let > firmware handle TSF synchronization details by itself (and just look > at those glories comments...) > > Also, clear in_assoc when going down, as it effects early behaviour > when coming up, before association (found by Imre). > > I'm now getting much better results when switching between networks > with the 8260. Doesn't cause problems on 7260 and 7265. > > ok?
This appears to completely solve the delay in getting an address problem we have talked about previously with my X260 and its 8260 card. There are multiple access points visible in my environment at any one spot with multiple 2.4GHz and 5GHz SSIDs. Thank you! Bryan
