From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 25 19:53:18 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AAAE16A41F for ; Fri, 25 Nov 2005 19:53:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from hans@nieser.net) Received: from smtp-vbr8.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr8.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.28]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEBF143D66 for ; Fri, 25 Nov 2005 19:53:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from hans@nieser.net) Received: from [192.168.1.10] (nieser.net [194.109.160.131]) by smtp-vbr8.xs4all.nl (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id jAPJrE6u038376 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Fri, 25 Nov 2005 20:53:15 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from hans@nieser.net) Message-ID: <43876BB1.7040003@nieser.net> Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 20:53:21 +0100 From: Hans Nieser User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051106) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner Subject: Questions regarding wlan, ipw and project evil X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 19:53:18 -0000 Hello, I have been trying to get my Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 NIC working with WPA with FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE, but am left with a few questions that I couldn't find clear answers to. - It seems that when I put ipw in my kernel instead of loading it as a module, it won't will not attach to my NIC (no ipw0 to be found in my dmesg). When I load ipw as a module however it does attach to my NIC as ipw0. Is this normal? As the module seems to work ok, it doesn't really pose a problem but it does make me wonder. - Somewhat similar as my question above (except that it's the other way around), I wanted to move wlan/wlan_* from my kernel to modules (so I could keep all the wifi stuff together in one place), but it seems I can't load "wlan" as a module. Putting wlan_load="YES" in my loader.conf doesn't make it load on boot nor can I manually load it with kldload wlan (it says "File exists"), it's not there when I do kldstat, but it's definitely not in my kernel either. Does wlan _have_ to be in the kernel? The wlan_* modules do load fine, by the way. - I read on the website of the author of the ipw driver that it doesn't support WPA, is this still true and if so, is there any chance of it eventually supporting it, or should I just go out and get a NIC that does work with WPA under FreeBSD 6.0? Does Project Evil support WPA? or does it depend on the ndis driver used?