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From: "Gene" <fbsd@brightstar.bomgardner.net>
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Subject: Wireless Woes (NDIS, WPA2)
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Hi All:

I'm trying to get wireless working on a laptop. It works fine as long as no
encryption is used, but if I try to use either WEP or WPA2, I ueem to always
wind up with 

Status: No Carrier

Any help greatly appreciated.
_____________________-

>From /etc/rc.conf:

   ifconfig_ndis0="WPA DHCP"

>From wpa_supplicant.conf

   network={
   ssid="northstar"
   psk="Passphrase here"
   }

>From /var/log/messages

   ndis0: <RangePlus Wireless Notebook Adapter> mem 0x88000000-0x8800ffff irq
   5 at device 0.0 on cardbus0
   ndis0: [ITHREAD]
   ndis0: NDIS API version: 5.1
   NDIS: could not find file preparse.ini in linker list
   NDIS: and no filesystems mounted yet, aborting NdisOpenFile()
   NDIS: could not find file regAdd.txt in linker list
   NDIS: and no filesystems mounted yet, aborting NdisOpenFile()

   ndis0: WARNING: using obsoleted if_watchdog interface
   ndis0: Ethernet address: 00:18:39:17:28:35

And from ifconfig ndis0 scan:

genesis# ifconfig ndis0 scan

SSID            BSSID              CHAN RATE   S:N     INT CAPS
northstar       00:21:91:de:3f:8d    1   54M -51:-96  100 EPS 

And finally from ifconfig ndis0:

genesis# ifconfig ndiso

ndis0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
	ether 00:18:39:17:28:35
	media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect
	status: no carrier
	ssid "" channel 1 (2412 Mhz 11b)
	authmode OPEN privacy OFF bmiss 7 scanvalid 60 roaming MANUAL
	bintval 0

________________________

IHN,
Gene

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