WPA Supplicant issue (maybe)

Chris Brennan xaero at xaerolimit.net
Sat Jan 8 19:18:40 UTC 2011


Greetings!

I got bwn to recognize my wireless card, I think there is still something
missing tho and it's left me scratching my head.

[root at blackdragon ~]# dmesg | grep -e bwn -e wlan0
module_register: module siba_bwn/bwn already exists!
Module siba_bwn/bwn failed to register: 17
siba_bwn0: <Broadcom BCM4312 802.11b/g Wireless> mem 0xfc000000-0xfc003fff
irq 23 at device 0.0 on pci8
bwn0 on siba_bwn0
bwn0: WLAN (chipid 0x4312 rev 15) PHY (analog 6 type 5 rev 1) RADIO (manuf
0x17f ver 0x2062 rev 2)
bwn0: DMA (64 bits)
bwn0: Using 1 MSI messages
bwn0: [FILTER]
wlan0: Ethernet address: 00:21:00:12:48:86
bwn_v4_lp_ucode15: could not load firmware image, error 2
bwn0: the fw file(bwn_v4_lp_ucode15) not found
bwn-open_v4_lp_ucode15: could not load firmware image, error 2
bwn0: the fw file(bwn-open_v4_lp_ucode15) not found
[root at blackdragon ~]# grep -e bwn -e wlan /etc/rc.conf
wlans_bwn0="wlan0"
ifconfig_wlan0="WPA DHCP"
[root at blackdragon ~]# cat /boot/loader.conf
if_bwn_load="YES"
wlan_wep_load="YES"
wlan_ccmp_load="YES"
wlan_tkip_load="YES"
bwn_v4_ucode_load="YES"
[root at blackdragon ~]# grep -A4 Broadcom kernels/BlackDragon
# Broadcom Wireless Networking Driver
device          siba_bwn
device          bwn
device          wlan
device          firmware
[root at blackdragon ~]# kldstat
Id Refs Address            Size     Name
 1   13 0xffffffff80100000 9d9f90   kernel
 2    1 0xffffffff80ada000 41368    if_bwn.ko
 3    1 0xffffffff80b1c000 2b8b0    bwn_v4_ucode.ko
 4    1 0xffffffff80c22000 e82      dragon_saver.ko
[root at blackdragon ~]# ifconfig
[..]
bwn0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 2290
        ether 00:21:00:12:48:86
        media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect)
        status: no carrier
[..]
wlan0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
        ether 00:21:00:12:48:86
        media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect)
        status: no carrier
        ssid "" channel 1 (2412 MHz 11b)
        country US authmode WPA1+WPA2/802.11i privacy OFF txpower 30 bmiss 7
        scanvalid 60 bgscan bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250 roam:rssi 7
        roam:rate 1 wme bintval 0
[root at blackdragon ~]# cat /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
network={
        ssid="The Realm"
        proto=WPA
        key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
        psk=SoMeEnCrYpTeDkEy
}
[root at blackdragon ~]# uname -a
FreeBSD blackdragon.xaerolimit.net 8.1-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE-p2 #1:
Sat Jan  8 13:08:03 EST 2011
root at blackdragon.xaerolimit.net:/usr/obj/usr/srcs/8.1/sys/BlackDragon
amd64

I'm not sure what I missed but it won't recognize my AP or try to actually
associate it with ... (I do realize that this may still be broke on amd64 as
was my understanding from my last e-mail about this from the thread
'Broadcom Wireless b/g (BCM4315/BCM22062000)'.

If I've missed anything, let me know...

C-


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