Broadcom BCM4310 USB Controller (Wifi)

[Paul B Mahol]

On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 6:34 AM, Scot Hetzel <swhetzel at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 12:59 AM, Matthias Apitz <guru at unixarea.de> wrote:
>> I booted the 8-CURRENT this morning, loaded the module with kldload(8) and
>> wlan0 came up by its own (I did not realized this yesterday). I have in
>> rc.conf:
>>
>> wlans_ndis0="wlan0"
>> ifconfig_wlan0="WPA DHCP"
>>
>> wpa_supplicant(8) started after kldload, and associated the
>> interface with my AP; had to do the DHCP by hand, don't know why?
>>
> The problem is that the Broadcom NDIS driver is generating connection
> events, but nothing is relaying that information to the wpa_supplicant
> daemon.  Since the wpa_supplicant daemon doesn't see a connection
> event, it retries connecting
>
> I had created a patch in PR 113915 which solves this problem:
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=113915
>
> Give it a try, if it solves your problem submit a followup to the PR.

Hmm, ndis_events are required if you use  -Dndis and wpa/rsn and need
to get event of PMKIDs.
For other uses it is of no use.

Try -Dbsd driver for wpa_supplicant with code from here:
Try http://gitorious.org/ndisulator