Broadcom BCM4310 USB Controller (Wifi)

[Matthias Apitz]

El día Thursday, October 28, 2010 a las 12:07:10PM +0000, Paul B Mahol escribió:

> > # dhclient ndis0
> > ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): Invalid argument
> > ndis0: not found
> >
> > and the same is with
> >
> > # ifconfig ndis0 192.168.2.200
> >
> > All this is with a 8-CURRENT kernel/system as of May 2009. I will now build
> > a
> > USB key from HEAD and will continue testing.
> >
> 
> On 9/8 CURRENT you create wlanX with ifconfig(8) and operate on them.

Stupid I am. Of course. I forgot this in the happyness that ndis0 came
up :-(

> But note that such old CURRENT have few bugs in NDISulator.
> 
> For example scan results are incomplete and scanning can trigger panic
> in some situations.
> If you use wpa_supplicant -Dndis you will never encounter such problems.

I've checked my old man page and the one of HEAD ... -D.... is not
explained in the man page of wpa_supplicant(8), but in its help:

# /usr/sbin/wpa_supplicant --help | fgrep -- -D
wpa_supplicant: illegal option -- -
        -i<ifname> -c<config file> [-C<ctrl>] [-D<driver>]
[-p<driver_param>] \
        [-N -i<ifname> -c<conf> [-C<ctrl>] [-D<driver>] \
  -D = driver name
  wpa_supplicant -Dwext -iwlan0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf

Thanks for the hint

	matthias
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