Current 8.0: wpa_supplicant SPAM: Setting ESSID to ""

[Scot Hetzel]

On Nov 17, 2007 2:26 PM, Victor M. Blood <freebsd at masm.elcom.ru> wrote:
>
> On 17.11.2007, Scot Hetzel wrote:
> > On 11/17/07, Victor M. Blood <freebsd at masm.elcom.ru> wrote:
> >> On 17.11.2007, Scot Hetzel wrote:
> >> > I'm using version 4.40.19.0 of the broadcom ndis driver from:
> >>
> >> >  ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp33001-33500/sp33008.exe
> >>
> >> > This file contains both the 32-bit and 64-bit ndis drivers.
> >>
> >> > Where did you obtain your bcmwl5.sys file from?  What version are you using?
> >> From driver disk for my Dell inspiron 1300, file version for
> >> bcmwl5.sys - 3.120.27.0.
> >>
> >> may be real problems with old driver...?
> >>
> > It could be a problem with the old driver, try the HP driver.  You
> > will need to install archivers/cabextract to extract the bcmwl* files
> > from sp33008.exe.
>
> > cabextract -q -L -F 'bcmwl5*'
This should be:

cabextract -q -L -F 'bcmwl5*' sp33008.exe

> hmm.. It's will work with miniPCI card?
>
This driver supports the below listed cards, just check that the
device id matches your card.  Then  just make a backup of your current
ndis driver (bcmwl5_sys.ko), before creating a new one from the HP
driver.

			Supported PCI Hardware for
	Broadcom BCM43xx 802.11 Network Adapter Driver (4.40.19.0)

Vendor ID	Device Id	SubSys Id	Description
=========	=========	=========	=============================
0x14e4		0x4320		0x00e70e11	Broadcom 802.11b/g WLAN
0x14e4		0x4320		0x12f4103c	Broadcom 802.11b/g WLAN
0x14e4		0x4320		0x12f8103c	Broadcom 802.11b/g WLAN
0x14e4		0x4320		0x12fa103c	Broadcom 802.11b/g WLAN
0x14e4		0x4320		0x12fb103c	Broadcom 802.11b/g WLAN

0x14e4		0x4324		0x12f9103c	Broadcom 802.11a/b/g WLAN
0x14e4		0x4324		0x12fc103c	Broadcom 802.11a/b/g WLAN

0x14e4		0x4318		0x1355103c	Broadcom 802.11b/g WLAN
0x14e4		0x4318		0x1356103c	Broadcom 802.11b/g WLAN
0x14e4		0x4318		0x1357103c	Broadcom 802.11b/g WLAN

0x14e4		0x4319		0x1358103c	Broadcom 802.11a/b/g WLAN
0x14e4		0x4319		0x1359103c	Broadcom 802.11a/b/g WLAN
0x14e4		0x4319		0x135a103c	Broadcom 802.11a/b/g WLAN

0x14e4		0x4311		0x1363103c	Broadcom 802.11b/g WLAN
0x14e4		0x4311		0x1364103c	Broadcom 802.11b/g WLAN
0x14e4		0x4311		0x1365103c	Broadcom 802.11b/g WLAN

0x14e4		0x4312		0x1360103c	Broadcom 802.11a/b/g WLAN
0x14e4		0x4312		0x1361103c	Broadcom 802.11a/b/g WLAN
0x14e4		0x4312		0x1362103c	Broadcom 802.11a/b/g WLAN
0x14e4		0x4312		0x135f103c	Broadcom 802.11a/b/g WLAN

Scot