From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 15 14:39:12 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D294816A407 for ; Fri, 15 Sep 2006 14:39:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cfaber@ruckusmail.com) Received: from unixgr.com (unixgr.com [63.224.69.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7791B43D6A for ; Fri, 15 Sep 2006 14:39:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cfaber@ruckusmail.com) Received: from [192.168.0.121] (c-24-8-35-213.hsd1.co.comcast.net [24.8.35.213]) (authenticated bits=0) by unixgr.com (8.13.8/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k8FFQd31004256; Fri, 15 Sep 2006 09:26:42 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from cfaber@ruckusmail.com) X-Authentication-Warning: unixgr.com: Host c-24-8-35-213.hsd1.co.comcast.net [24.8.35.213] claimed to be [192.168.0.121] Message-ID: <450ABADD.3090806@ruckusmail.com> Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 08:38:21 -0600 From: Colin Faber User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060708) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dimiter Ivanov References: <7cc8007f0609141342i4c28b2e6v206cce3469b59d1e@mail.gmail.com> <4509C6E6.3070508@ruckusmail.com> <7cc8007f0609150101x57b79a4fw89cf4b67e2291487@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7cc8007f0609150101x57b79a4fw89cf4b67e2291487@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Anyone able to use Broadcom WiFi Card with encryption? X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 14:39:12 -0000 Dimiter Ivanov wrote: > On 9/15/06, Colin Faber 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 ... }