From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 31 20:46:26 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06F6910656AA for ; Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:46:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [65.122.17.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C84358FC1F for ; Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:46:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bigwig.baldwin.cx (66.111.2.69.static.nyinternet.net [66.111.2.69]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 485E146B4C; Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:46:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: from jhbbsd.localnet (smtp.hudson-trading.com [209.249.190.9]) by bigwig.baldwin.cx (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 62EE68A04E; Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:46:24 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:44:37 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (FreeBSD/7.3-CBSD-20100819; KDE/4.4.5; amd64; ; ) References: <201008310920.49730.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201008311644.37434.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0.1 (bigwig.baldwin.cx); Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:46:24 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.95.1 at bigwig.baldwin.cx X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=4.2 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.5 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on bigwig.baldwin.cx Cc: Michael BlackHeart Subject: Re: Broadcom Wireless BCM4312 Rev.02 (BCM4310 UART) troubles X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:46:26 -0000 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