Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2009 10:04:05 -0500 From: "Gene" <fbsd@brightstar.bomgardner.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wireless Woes (NDIS, WPA2) Message-ID: <20090606145651.M13305@brightstar.bomgardner.net> In-Reply-To: <3a142e750906051007q1a918900je09339c53f517027@mail.gmail.com> References: <20090604204438.M13014@brightstar.bomgardner.net> <3a142e750906041618n132196e8y638e12aabf27453@mail.gmail.com> <20090605165231.M1533@brightstar.bomgardner.net> <3a142e750906051007q1a918900je09339c53f517027@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, 5 Jun 2009 17:07:23 +0000, Paul B. Mahol wrote > On 6/5/09, Gene <fbsd@brightstar.bomgardner.net> wrote: > > On Thu, 4 Jun 2009 23:18:42 +0000, Paul B. Mahol wrote > >> On 6/4/09, Gene <fbsd@brightstar.bomgardner.net> 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. > >> > _____________________- > >> > >> Look in output from wpa_supplicant using -d switch > >> for information about possible misconfiguration. > >> > >> # wpa_supplicant -d -Dndis -iwlan0 -cMY_CONF.FILE > >> > >> -- > >> Paul > > > > Paul - thanks for the response. > > > > Did the above - the output shows that wlan could not be found. It's loaded > > according to kldstat so I'm not sure what's going on. Should there be an > > entry > > for wlan in rc.conf? Output from wpa_supplicant is below. > > > > Yhanks! > > > > > You have ndis0 so replace wlan0 with ndis0 > Paul, the above failed until I changed the ap from wpa2 to wpa. I'm now running semi-happily using wpa. I wonder if maybe the ndis wrapper won;t support wpa2? Or perhaps the rc.conf entry should read: ifconfig_ndis0 "WPA2 DHCP" Hmmm... Thanks for your help IHN, Gene -- To everything there is a season, And a time to every purpose under heaven.
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