From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 4 23:18:43 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D8021065672 for ; Thu, 4 Jun 2009 23:18:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from onemda@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f211.google.com (mail-fx0-f211.google.com [209.85.220.211]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D9CC8FC0C for ; Thu, 4 Jun 2009 23:18:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from onemda@gmail.com) Received: by fxm7 with SMTP id 7so728036fxm.43 for ; Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:18:42 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=KAm3Ybplq3/wEZLBHW5QSlAlZoliJupYnDokeqbIRiU=; b=LdHJce57XZ6mkvlaRdcNXkkWe8dLloJuSkf86IL0E8EzQ92kh22Gv+Dc5wBxX3QN8S KFOHEv6jm0YzG5Ky9kdabxMYTo2cT790tj7NwIuiZ74bUmeE7WHNdeAsk3FeNMCN3Vf5 fF73IEHMK6a3xqgKLS60auWYgFGla1t+dsbRE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=h1q1wz5GvNxEGJNMoz2ekezCkT0bAbUL3npyl4bGxij8dJcAHIOSElR2hUc6ezyR43 AWhEOBeNM/CltkHLbG1XmzvnRamE3/+gabcMaQ+zupYA02kP/45Wt0RMZ8KO3FdCF9az MUP2C4w3UGEuopmdjIvKapqn94EsfK0O5A4Bg= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.68.73 with SMTP id u9mr2497542bki.192.1244157522097; Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:18:42 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20090604204438.M13014@brightstar.bomgardner.net> References: <20090604204438.M13014@brightstar.bomgardner.net> Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 23:18:42 +0000 Message-ID: <3a142e750906041618n132196e8y638e12aabf27453@mail.gmail.com> From: "Paul B. Mahol" To: Gene Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wireless Woes (NDIS, WPA2) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2009 23:18:43 -0000 On 6/4/09, Gene wrote: > 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: 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 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. > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Look in output from wpa_supplicant using -d switch for information about possible misconfiguration. # wpa_supplicant -d -Dndis -iwlan0 -cMY_CONF.FILE -- Paul