Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 08:34:13 +0000 (GMT) From: wpaul@FreeBSD.ORG (Bill Paul) To: pete@altadena.net (Peter Carah) Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Broadcom wireless ndis 64 bit Message-ID: <20051110083413.96AF716A420@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <4372F636.9080203@altadena.net> from Peter Carah at "Nov 9, 2005 11:26:46 pm"
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> > I agree. Give it another try.
>
> Much better, but still no cigar. Module loads and recognizes the hardware.
> One time it left the blue light on, and said WPA (different from yours...), but
> no throughput. Since then it never really turns on. Dmesg excerpt from boot
> (with module preloaded) follows:
Whoa whoa whoa. Not so fast.
First thing you should have done is "ifconfig ndis0 up" followed by "ifconfig
ndis0 scan" and then checked to see if it could detect any of your local
wireless networks. If "ifconfig ndis0 scan" shows nothing, then you're not
even ready to try wpa_supplicant yet.
[..]
> .....
> after this the ONLY messages from this driver are the fpudna ones, and
> wpa_supplicant never actually got a connection. Once I plugged the ath0 card
> in *it* worked but ndis never did.
> Oh well...
> Are there any debug flags that might help here, and if so how?
When Sam Leffler tried the same driver earlier today, he too whined that
after loading the driver, no networks were visible. Then I asked him if
he had a magic "turn the radio on/off" button on his laptop. It turns
out he does, and once he used it to turn the radio on, everything worked
as expected.
So does your laptop have a "turn the radio on/off" switch on it and did
you remember to use it to turn the radio on?
-Bill
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