Wireless Woes (NDIS, WPA2)

[Paul B. Mahol]

On 6/6/09, Gene <fbsd at brightstar.bomgardner.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Jun 2009 17:07:23 +0000, Paul B. Mahol wrote
>> On 6/5/09, Gene <fbsd at brightstar.bomgardner.net> wrote:
>> > On Thu, 4 Jun 2009 23:18:42 +0000, Paul B. Mahol wrote
>> >> On 6/4/09, Gene <fbsd at brightstar.bomgardner.net> wrote:
>> >> > Hi All:
>> >> >
>> >> > I'm trying to get wireless working on a laptop. It works fine as long
>> >> > as
>> >> > no
>> >> > encryption is used, but if I try to use either WEP or WPA2, I ueem to
>> >> > always
>> >> > wind up with
>> >> >
>> >> > Status: No Carrier
>> >> >
>> >> > Any help greatly appreciated.
>> >> > _____________________-
>> >>
>> >> Look in output from wpa_supplicant using -d switch
>> >> for information about possible misconfiguration.
>> >>
>> >> # wpa_supplicant -d -Dndis -iwlan0 -cMY_CONF.FILE
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Paul
>> >
>> > Paul - thanks for the response.
>> >
>> > Did the above - the output shows that wlan could not be found. It's
>> > loaded
>> > according to kldstat so I'm not sure what's going on. Should there be an
>> > entry
>> > for wlan in rc.conf? Output from wpa_supplicant is below.
>> >
>> > Yhanks!
>> >
>>
>>
>> You have ndis0 so replace wlan0 with ndis0
>>
>
> Paul,
>  the above failed until I changed the ap from wpa2 to wpa.
>
> I'm now running semi-happily using wpa. I wonder if maybe the ndis wrapper
> won;t support wpa2? Or perhaps the rc.conf entry should read:
>

ndisulator can not support WPA1 or WPA2 if miniport or device doesn't
support it.

look into output of:

# ifconfig ndis0 list caps

Mine is:

drivercaps=1802303<STA,IBSS,PMGT,TXPMGT,WPA1,WPA2>
cryptocaps=b<WEP,TKIP,AES_CCM>

> ifconfig_ndis0 "WPA2 DHCP"
>
> Hmmm...
>
> Thanks for your help
>
>
>
> IHN,
> Gene
>
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-- 
Paul