Broadcom BCM4310 USB Controller (Wifi)

[Matthias Apitz]

El día Friday, October 29, 2010 a las 07:07:18AM +0000, Paul B Mahol escribió:

> 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.

The wpa_supplicant(8) which comes up after loading the NDIS kmod with
kldload(8) is launched with -Dndis; I checked this this morning;
will try the patch proposed by Scott;

	matthias

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