Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 17:08:32 -0500 From: Ben Kaduk <minimarmot@gmail.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ndis0 does not associate to open AP [fixed] Message-ID: <47d0403c0510161508y213756cdpb5f2b5dc60331c43@mail.gmail.com>
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On 10/9/05, Ben Kaduk <minimarmot@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > > My apologies if this is not the best list to which to send this. I've bee= n > trying to get my dell laptop's built-in wireless card to work with my > university's wireless network for quite some time now, but nothing I try > seems to work. This is on a recent -current: > # uname -a > FreeBSD prolepsis.urh.uiuc.edu <http://prolepsis.urh.uiuc.edu>; 7.0-CURREN= TFreeBSD > 7.0-CURRENT #15: Sat Oct 8 01:02:04 UTC 2005 kaduk@prolepsis.urh.uiuc.edu= :/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PROLEPSIS > i386 > > The university's setup, so far as I can tell, is as follows: They have al= l > access points open for association, but do not allow access to the outsid= e > world -- when an http page is first requested, the request is intercepted > and substituted with a university page that has a link to a kerberos-base= d > authentication, or directions on how to use their vpn client. After > authentication, the protocol used is IPSec over UDP. The main point is th= at > the access points are open and running dhcp servers, as confirmed on my > iBook (on which I'm writing this message). > However, when I try to use the ndis driver on my dell to try to associate > with this AP and run dhclient, I get far-from-desireable results. > I am using recent (~2 week old) windows xp drivers for my broadcom (4324?= ) > card and I have regenerated bcmwl5_sys.ko after my latest buildworld, usi= ng > ndisgen(8). The wireless card is listed in pciconf -lv as: > ndis0@pci2:3:0: class=3D0x028000 card=3D0x00011028 chip=3D0x432414e4 rev= =3D0x02 > hdr=3D0x00[possibly more off screen] > vendor =3D 'Broadcom Corporation' > device =3D 'BCM4309 802.11a/b/g Wireless LAN Controller' > class =3D 'network' > > In windows XP, this card is able to successfully associate with the > university AP. > > The bcmwl5_sys.ko module produced by ndisgen seems to load successfully: > # kldload bcmwl5_sys > warning: KLD '/boot/modules/bcmwl5_sys.ko' is newer than the linker.hints= file > ndis0: <Dell TrueMobile 1400 Dual Band WLAN Mini-PCI Card> mem > 0xfaff6000-0xfaff7fff irq 9 at device 3.0 on pci2 > ndis0: NDIS API version: 5.1 > ndis0: Ethernet address: 00:90:4b:2d:46:ce > # > > > I can then scan and see (several) APs: > #ifconfig ndis0 up scan > SSID BSSID CHAN RATE S:N INT CAPS > UIUCnet [bssid1] 1 54M 151:0 100 E [5x ???] WME VEN VEN > UIUCnet [bssid2] 6 54M 120:0 100 E [5x ???] WME VEN VEN WME > UIUCnet [bssid3] 36 54M 130:0 100 E ??? ??? WME VEN VEN > > I can then try to associate to one (the same one that my iBook picks by > default): > # ifconfig ndis0 ssid UIUCnet bssid [bssid1] > # ifconfig ndis0 > ndis0: flags=3D8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLES,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 > inet6 fe80::290:4bff:fe2d:46ce%ndis0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4 > ether 00:90:4b:2d:46:ce > mdeia: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect > status: no carrier > ndis0: failed to get bssid > ssid "" channel 1 > authmode OPEN privacy OFF txpowmax 100 protmode CTS > # > (The "failed to get bssid" bit is the console log) > > The result is the same whether or not I have a dhclient attached to ndis0= . > > > Am I doing something stupid, or missing something obvious? I can get more > info if necessary. > > Thanks > > Ben Kaduk > > For the archives, Bill Paul's latest round of ndisulator updates fixed this for me -- thanks Bill! Ben Kaduk
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