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Date:      Wed, 17 Feb 2010 12:54:33 +0000
From:      Paul B Mahol <onemda@gmail.com>
To:        Anselm Strauss <amsibamsi@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: RTL8192SE WLAN
Message-ID:  <3a142e751002170454m2634b35bl8abdde919526b072@mail.gmail.com>
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On 2/17/10, Anselm Strauss <amsibamsi@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 11:28 PM, Paul B Mahol <onemda@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 2/16/10, Anselm Strauss <amsibamsi@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hey,
>> >
>> > anybody got the RTL8192SE wireless chip to work with FreeBSD? I bought a
>> > Asus 1201N laptop. I successfully compiled the Windows XP driver with
>> > ndisgen(8). The driver loads and the device is there. On the FreeBSD
>> EeePC
>> > wiki it says it's a 8191 chip, but when I look at the driver download
>> from
>> > Asus and dmesg it's reported as 8192. The driver seems to work at least
>> in
>> > some way since I'm able to scan for networks and get a list. But I
>> > cannot
>> > connect to a WPA2 network. Association with the network always fails in
>> > wpa_supplicant(8).
>>
>> Maybe there is some kind of timeout, I could send you small patch to test
>> it.
>> Just post full verbose debug output from wpa_supplicant(8)
>>
>> Anyway, feel free to test http://www.gitorious.org/NDISulator
>>
>> > Anyone has some experience?
>>
>> You are using wpa_supplicant with -D ndis flag, right?
>>
>
> Hm, interesting. No, I didn't know this option. Can't find it on the
> wpa_supplicant manpage. But I will try it ...

You do not need it if you use 8.0 and you start wpa_supplicant via rc.conf



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