Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 15:55:33 -0500 From: "Gene" <fbsd@brightstar.bomgardner.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Wireless Woes (NDIS, WPA2) Message-ID: <20090604204438.M13014@brightstar.bomgardner.net>
next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Hi All:
I'm trying to get wireless working on a laptop. It works fine as long as no
encryption is used, but if I try to use either WEP or WPA2, I ueem to always
wind up with
Status: No Carrier
Any help greatly appreciated.
_____________________-
>From /etc/rc.conf:
ifconfig_ndis0="WPA DHCP"
>From wpa_supplicant.conf
network={
ssid="northstar"
psk="Passphrase here"
}
>From /var/log/messages
ndis0: <RangePlus Wireless Notebook Adapter> mem 0x88000000-0x8800ffff irq
5 at device 0.0 on cardbus0
ndis0: [ITHREAD]
ndis0: NDIS API version: 5.1
NDIS: could not find file preparse.ini in linker list
NDIS: and no filesystems mounted yet, aborting NdisOpenFile()
NDIS: could not find file regAdd.txt in linker list
NDIS: and no filesystems mounted yet, aborting NdisOpenFile()
ndis0: WARNING: using obsoleted if_watchdog interface
ndis0: Ethernet address: 00:18:39:17:28:35
And from ifconfig ndis0 scan:
genesis# ifconfig ndis0 scan
SSID BSSID CHAN RATE S:N INT CAPS
northstar 00:21:91:de:3f:8d 1 54M -51:-96 100 EPS
And finally from ifconfig ndis0:
genesis# ifconfig ndiso
ndis0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
ether 00:18:39:17:28:35
media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect
status: no carrier
ssid "" channel 1 (2412 Mhz 11b)
authmode OPEN privacy OFF bmiss 7 scanvalid 60 roaming MANUAL
bintval 0
________________________
IHN,
Gene
--
To everything there is a season,
And a time to every purpose under heaven.
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20090604204438.M13014>