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Date:      Fri, 29 Oct 2010 07:07:18 +0000
From:      Paul B Mahol <onemda@gmail.com>
To:        Scot Hetzel <swhetzel@gmail.com>
Cc:        Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de>, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Broadcom BCM4310 USB Controller (Wifi)
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On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 6:34 AM, Scot Hetzel <swhetzel@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 12:59 AM, Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> wrote=
:
>> I booted the 8-CURRENT this morning, loaded the module with kldload(8) a=
nd
>> wlan0 came up by its own (I did not realized this yesterday). I have in
>> rc.conf:
>>
>> wlans_ndis0=3D"wlan0"
>> ifconfig_wlan0=3D"WPA DHCP"
>>
>> wpa_supplicant(8) started after kldload, and associated the
>> interface with my AP; had to do the DHCP by hand, don't know why?
>>
> The problem is that the Broadcom NDIS driver is generating connection
> events, but nothing is relaying that information to the wpa_supplicant
> daemon. =A0Since the wpa_supplicant daemon doesn't see a connection
> event, it retries connecting
>
> I had created a patch in PR 113915 which solves this problem:
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=3D113915
>
> Give it a try, if it solves your problem submit a followup to the PR.

Hmm, ndis_events are required if you use  -Dndis and wpa/rsn and need
to get event of PMKIDs.
For other uses it is of no use.

Try -Dbsd driver for wpa_supplicant with code from here:
Try http://gitorious.org/ndisulator



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