Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:44:37 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: Michael BlackHeart <amdmiek@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Broadcom Wireless BCM4312 Rev.02 (BCM4310 UART) troubles Message-ID: <201008311644.37434.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=CtJ=igxnoCGMYveo-N7%2BRs8=9YDt-Qkt%2BBX41@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTikH1uGQsCfAsE9zo9ABoDop700chbJEDFhEVFTG@mail.gmail.com> <201008310920.49730.jhb@freebsd.org> <AANLkTi=CtJ=igxnoCGMYveo-N7%2BRs8=9YDt-Qkt%2BBX41@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tuesday, August 31, 2010 2:08:49 pm Michael BlackHeart wrote: > > Why don't you try to play with wlan(4) on top of bwi/bwn? > > An example is here: handbook / 31.3.3.1.1 How to Find Access Points. > > wlan appeared in 7.2 or 7.3 and 8.0 as I remember and I always thought that > it's just a matter of security and easy maintaining and probably multi-wlan > routing. In a real daily usage I use it as well, for example it works great > on my server, but I guess it doesn't matter for a testing hardware, does it? As others have noted, wlan devices are mandatory. > > Yes, even with ndis (which is what I use for this adapter, albeit on > i386), > > you have to use wlan. (ndis on i386 will not have the 'fpudna' issues > since > > 32-bit Windows drivers do not use SSE instructions.) Even with ndis I > have to > > run ndis_events for WPA auth to work FWIW. > > I've tried i386 as well with ndis and it doesn't make a sense. Could you > please tell me the driver version you use, it's SP number if it's official > HP driver, or link to download the one you have to work with. And a link how > to use ndis_events will be great, I've never try this one. Hmm, I downloaded the driver over a year ago. The INF file is UTF-16 or some such which I cannot parse by hand very easily. It is just called 'bcmwl5' and the driver copyright is 1998-2008 Broadcom. For ndis_events you just need to run it without any arguments. I think you can run it after wpa_supplicant has been started. -- John Baldwin
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