Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 22:56:01 -0400 From: Glen Barber <glen.j.barber@gmail.com> To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: ndis0 no link on 6.3-RELEASE Message-ID: <200803132256.01197.glen.j.barber@gmail.com>
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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/
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