Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 08:38:21 -0600 From: Colin Faber <cfaber@ruckusmail.com> To: Dimiter Ivanov <erazorbg@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Anyone able to use Broadcom WiFi Card with encryption? Message-ID: <450ABADD.3090806@ruckusmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7cc8007f0609150101x57b79a4fw89cf4b67e2291487@mail.gmail.com> References: <7cc8007f0609141342i4c28b2e6v206cce3469b59d1e@mail.gmail.com> <4509C6E6.3070508@ruckusmail.com> <7cc8007f0609150101x57b79a4fw89cf4b67e2291487@mail.gmail.com>
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Dimiter Ivanov wrote:
> On 9/15/06, Colin Faber <cfaber@ruckusmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm running a broadcom mini-pci card on a WPA-PSK network with no
>> problems.
>>
>> You need to make sure that you've loaded the correct kernel modules to
>> support the encryption in question. Also, IIRC, some cards will not
>> support some types of encryption at all. Yours may be one of them.
>>
>> -cf
>
> A light in the tunel! :)
> Well i'm pretty sure the card supports WPA-PSK & WEP because that's
> how i connect to the networks at work, but only using windows.
>
> So the problem must be with the 'correct kernel modules'
> Which modules do i need to load.
> And how do i connect using WPA-PSK, i've been trying with
> wpa_supplicant , but i'm not sure that it supports cards with ndis-ed
> drivers, because it wont associate to an AP even without encryption.
You'll need crypto, wlan, wlan_tkip, and wlan_wep.
In your rc.conf: ifconfig_ndis0="WPA DHCP"
In your wpa_suplicant.conf:
network={
ssid="your-ssid"
psk="somepresharedkey"
}
network={
ssid="someother-ssid"
other options ...
}
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