Re: Wii SSH isn't working

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Hi Anne!

I checked in another set of fixes yesterday that should help. Can you 
update your kernel (make sure it has the change from 
https://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2025/10/23/msg158695.html) 
and see if it fixes your issues?

Thanks!
Jared


On Wed, 22 Oct 2025, Anne DeCusatis wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Apologies for resurrecting an old thread. I wanted to update that this
> patch: https://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-powerpc/2025/10/19/msg003717.html
> seems to have fixed my previous issue with "no BBP id for device ID"
> when I use the latest nightly build (as of a couple days ago - Oct
> 19?), but that unfortunately I am still seeing issues with SSH.
>
> Here is what I have tried to debug so far:
> * I am able to ping both the wider internet and other devices on my
> local network from the Wii
> * I am able to SSH between two other devices on my local network, both
> using OpenSSH 8.x
> * I am able to SSH from my Wii to itself successfully (presumably this
> doesn't touch the nonworking part of my networking stack?)
> * I am not able to SSH from my Wii to other devices on my local network
> * I am not able to SSH from other devices on my local network to my Wii
> * I also tried installing OpenSSH 10.2 on an Arch Linux docker image
> and using that to SSH, it also did not work which I think rules out
> version issues. (I used Arch because it was quicker than finding a
> NetBSD docker image that I could get working on my Apple Silicon mac,
> and I haven't tried on my linux machine yet. For what it's worth I was
> also unable to get NetBSD running on the Wii Dolphin Emulator. I have
> not yet sourced a second Wii to test SSH between them, though I think
> I will be able to borrow a friend's if it comes to that.)
> * I installed Wireshark on my Mac and turned up the Wii-side sshd
> logging to DEBUG1. I am not an expert with Wireshark but it appears to
> me that the server side prints "expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_ECDH_INIT
> [preauth]" but the client side never receives the previous step and
> therefore does not find out that it's time to send that part of the
> negotiation (i.e. the last thing the client prints with -vvv is
> "debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent" -- when I do a working SSH between two
> other devices, it prints that it receives SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT and then
> continues negotiation. Overall the Wireshark capture has a lot of
> retransmissions, they seem to be at the same places every time when I
> retry, which makes me wonder if it is not just that my Wii wifi is
> flaky but that it is some other network issue.
>
> Let me know if there is more information I can provide (I saved the
> Wireshark captures but I don't know if they contain information I
> shouldn't attach here). And thank you for this port, it's fun!
>
> Thanks,
> Anne
>
>
> On Tue, May 6, 2025 at 10:09 AM Anne DeCusatis <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>>> I found a workaround for the issue but neglected to mention it here;
>>
>> I have an update after trying this which I am even more confused by. I
>> tried to remove all the wifi settings I'd configured in the Wii System
>> Menu and reboot into NetBSD after reading the last email on this
>> thread. I am now seeing that the wifi interface bwi0 is no longer
>> listed in ifconfig (and of course, as a result there is no internet
>> connectivity anymore). dmesg | grep bwi gives me the following:
>> bwi0 at sdmmc1 function 1: Broadcom Wireless
>> bwi0: autoconfiguration error: no BBP id for device id 0x044b
>>
>> This error is persistent across reboots, reimaging the SD card and
>> re-setting-up the drivers and wpa_supplicant with the tar link, and
>> even after re-adding my network configuration in the Wii system menu
>> and getting a successful connection test there.
>>
>> I am worried about bricking my Wii if I do the wrong kind of system
>> reset but presumably something needs to be reset that hasn't been,
>> since it was working before. I am perplexed about how the Wii System
>> Menu can interact with NetBSD in this way at all though. I also don't
>> know what BBP is -- so I have a lot to learn.
>> I have previously installed: IOS v50, Systemmenu v385, Priiloader
>> v0.10.0 (r0x02b70b36). I believe that my Wii is on a pretty old
>> version of system menu and of Priiloader but it seems like the setup I
>> have is all versions which are comparably old to each other. I could
>> upgrade it all if that would help but I'm not sure it would be worth
>> the effort.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Anne
>
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