Broadcom Wireless BCM4312 Rev.02 (BCM4310 UART) troubles

Kevin Oberman oberman at es.net
Tue Aug 31 18:37:55 UTC 2010


> Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 22:08:49 +0400
> From: Michael BlackHeart <amdmiek at gmail.com>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable at freebsd.org
> 
> >   Why don't you try to play with wlan(4) on top of bwi/bwn?
> > An example is here: handbook / 31.3.3.1.1 How to Find Access Points.
> 
> wlan appeared in 7.2 or 7.3 and 8.0 as I remember and I always thought that
> it's just a matter of security and easy maintaining and probably multi-wlan
> routing. In a real daily usage I use it as well, for example it works great
> on my server, but I guess it doesn't matter for a testing hardware, does it?

Sorry, but wlan(4) is now mandatory for all wireless cards.
wlans_ath0="wlan0"
ifconfig_wlan0="inet 192.168.0.7/24 wepkey 1:SECRET ssid mylan weptxkey 1 wepmode on mode 11g -bgscan"
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