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

[John Baldwin]

On Tuesday, May 31, 2011 12:36:43 pm Bernhard Schmidt wrote:
> 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?

Whatever the defaults are (which would be -B ndis).

-- 
John Baldwin