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

[John Baldwin]

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.

-- 
John Baldwin