Re: bwfm driver failing on M2 Macbook Air

On Sat, Jun 20, 2026 at 12:08:35AM +0900, Simon Wollwage wrote:
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>Hi,
>
>I am running 7.9-current (same behavior on 7.8 though) on a Macbook Air
>M2 using the bwfm wifi driver.  From time to time (more often than I'd
>like), the driver seems to just stop working. After a resume but
>sometimes also in the middle of working on stuff. Running ifconfig then
>hangs for a long time and can't read half the info on the bwfm0 device.

Bear in mind its manpage has this to say:

"CAVEATS
      The firmware is outdated and contains known vulnerabilities."

I don't have a working C/C++ knowledge (in order to perhaps improve it)
so personally I'd avoid using it. I use a usb<>ethernet adapter for
this sort of context.
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