Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 20:53:21 +0100 From: Hans Nieser <hans@nieser.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Questions regarding wlan, ipw and project evil Message-ID: <43876BB1.7040003@nieser.net>
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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?
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