ndis driver presents the valid WiFi network as having the name 0x000000

Bernhard Schmidt bschmidt at freebsd.org
Tue May 31 17:00:49 UTC 2011


On Tuesday 31 May 2011 16:29:15 John Baldwin wrote:
> On Friday, May 27, 2011 5:14:09 pm Yuri wrote:
> > Underlying card is Broadcom BCM94312MCGSG (mini-card for laptop) with 
> > Windows driver.
> > This same card and driver work fine with pretty much any other network I 
> > tried.
> > But this one particular network shows as 0x000000 and I can't connect to it.
> > Another FreeBSD desktop with native ath driver and apple both connect to 
> > it fine.
> > 
> > What might be causing such weird behavior?
> > Is this a known problem?
> > Any way to troubleshoot this?
> 
> I have this same problem.  I've had to resort to using wpa_cli to 'select' my 
> network at work that has this issue and then using 'ap_scan 2' to force 
> wpa_supplicant to associate with it.  You also will want ndis_events running 
> if you need to do WPA authentication.

Are you using -D bsd or -D ndis as the driver for wpa_supplicant?

-- 
Bernhard


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