Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 23:18:42 +0000 From: "Paul B. Mahol" <onemda@gmail.com> To: Gene <fbsd@brightstar.bomgardner.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wireless Woes (NDIS, WPA2) Message-ID: <3a142e750906041618n132196e8y638e12aabf27453@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20090604204438.M13014@brightstar.bomgardner.net> References: <20090604204438.M13014@brightstar.bomgardner.net>
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On 6/4/09, Gene <fbsd@brightstar.bomgardner.net> wrote:
> 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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> And a time to every purpose under heaven.
>
>
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Look in output from wpa_supplicant using -d switch
for information about possible misconfiguration.
# wpa_supplicant -d -Dndis -iwlan0 -cMY_CONF.FILE
--
Paul
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