From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 14 02:56:07 2008 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 CB9761065671 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 02:56:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from glen.j.barber@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.238]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F8CF8FC1D for ; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 02:56:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from glen.j.barber@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i29so4230554wxd.7 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:56:06 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=Jk+jmB/cwfuuiUmg402JkDJIo2OIyvkHmzVz7KKVR+8=; b=jHmwba/Mh3rUDaMd60oMdOgQQd14RR4noCEEipcdYV/zCLH9nrV9tu9Veq4u9AtTYSdye89hVYUZsugHXemq1F7QZkHcm/K5NHfHZRfxtm6kNiOu1KE7XX0bd/vUbP7eH0mUK1CCBzLjTYdWZogajW0p9vK7xtVUxbUTRCccpSQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=N1gSZqkhPuu7PmiZRfoSfLdAT4sBXCif3X4E5XNtJIkeHJBull7bA4LIYKkQWOWubq3bRvsxMXljfn+87V/NpQOXkrc88Z2RBKaIYoNTzbHsfkpgecw6Zvg8zRYjnTAfB+P7D4/eLBoiD70KoB1WO7Y1UYEdsIzDDASFzgBQgDc= Received: by 10.70.75.12 with SMTP id x12mr11398385wxa.68.1205463365514; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:56:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.2? ( [24.229.62.9]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id i40sm1268129wxd.9.2008.03.13.19.56.03 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:56:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Glen Barber To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 22:56:01 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200803132256.01197.glen.j.barber@gmail.com> Cc: Subject: ndis0 no link on 6.3-RELEASE 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: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 02:56:07 -0000 Hello everyone. First off, sorry for the double post, but I'm not 100% certain at where this post belongs. I've found via Google many problems with ndis0 and failure to find a link in 6.3-RELEASE, without resolution. So here's my setup. I'm using a Broadcom 4318 chipset, with drivers created from ndisgen. If you need more specific information on the drivers, I'll be more than happy to provide information, however I believe it to be irrelevant at this moment, as I have used more than one driver version, with the same results. In 6.3-RC1 and below (tested in 6.2-RELEASE, and all -STABLE releases in between), my ndis0 adapter works as exptected, using WPA and DHCP. I can't pinpoint exaclty what changed (I've check in /usr/src/UPDATING, as it seemed to be most relevant), with no avail to finding anything regarding either wpa or dhclient. Since an upgrade to 6.3-RELEASE (both, via csup and a fresh install off of cd), I generate my ndis module, create an /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf, leaving /etc/dhclient as default, and am prompted with: ndis0: no link.......... giving up Upon 'kldunload bcmwl5.ko; kldload bcmwl5.ko', my ndis0 card looses all WPA capabilities. What seems to me to be the interesting part is this: If I 'csup' to 6.3-RELEASE from -RC1, and build a kernel, the problem does not occur -- as long as I do not 'buildworld'. However, once I 'buildworld; installworld', I am faced with the same problems as if I had installed 6.3-RELEASE from cd. I would really like to figure out what is causing this (both for myself, and the other affected ndis0 victims), but I'm not sure where to look -- dhclient, wpa_supplicant or ndis itself. Any other information I could provide, please let me know. Thanks. -- Glen Barber (570)328-0318 http://www.dev-urandom.com/