ndis0 won't set ssid on freeBSD 6.0

[Ross Lippert]

> # ifconfig ndis0 inet 10.2.0.3 netmask 255.255.255.0 ssid LUB
Actually, when I do the equivalent of this on my system (with WEP
and such turned off) I don't even get associated.  I think I will
try to return the card and just get something else.  I'm tired
of trying to debug something when I don't even know if I ndis-ed
the right driver.


-r
On Wednesday, 10 May 2006 at 22:56:56 +0300, Dimiter Ivanov wrote:
> On 5/9/06, Ross Lippert <lippert at math.mit.edu> wrote:
> >Authentication with 00:00:00:00:00:00 timed out.
> >Added BSSID 00:00:00:00:00:00 to blacklist
> >
> >So is the card not setting is BSSID or is something else going
> >on?
> >
> >Again, smooth sailing under windows, so I do not think that
> >it is a card versus router issue.
> 
> Hello guys my first post here.
> 
> I have simmiliar problems trying to associate to APs using
> wpa_supplicant and a converted WindowsXP driver of my ASUS WLAN 100g
> card, i think the chipset is broadcom.
> I don't know which information is relevant so i'll try to give u as
> much as i can.
> 
> My setup is
> # uname -a
> FreeBSD erazor.home 6.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #0: Thu Nov  3
> 09:36:13 UTC 2005
> root at x64.samsco.home:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
> 
> On a Thinkpad R40. With as i allready said ASUS WLAN adapter.
> And i try to associate with a 11Mb AP set on Channel 1 with ssid "LUB"
> without encryption.
> 
> Firstly i converted and loaded my drivers.
> And i get this message when i plugin my card :
> 
> cardbus0: Resource not specified in CIS: id=10, size=2000
> ndis0: <ASUS 802.11g Network Adapter> mem 0xd0202000-0xd0203fff irq 11
> at device 0.0 on cardbus0
> ndis0: NDIS API version: 5.1
> 
> When i try to associate with ifconfig with the following parameters :
> 
> # ifconfig ndis0 inet 10.2.0.3 netmask 255.255.255.0 ssid LUB
> 
> everything is OK, when i run ifconfig ndis0, it shows status: associated
> althought the lights on the card does not lit, the card is working
> since i'm posting here using it now...
> 
> but when i try to use wpa_supplicant :
> 
> # wpa_supplicant -i ndis0 -c /etc/wpa_sup
> 
> with the following network block :
> 
> network={
> 	ssid="LUB"
> 	key_mgmt=NONE
> }
> 
> i get :
> Trying to associate with 00:08:a1:52:d1:a3 (SSID='LUB' freq=2412 MHz)
> Authentication with 00:00:00:00:00:00 timed out.
> 
> 
> using the -d switch shows this :
> 
> <snip>
> wpa_driver_bsd_associate: ssid 'LUB' wpa ie len 0 pairwise 0 group 0 key 
> mgmt 2
> wpa_driver_bsd_associate: set PRIVACY 0
> Setting authentication timeout: 5 sec 0 usec
> Authentication with 00:00:00:00:00:00 timed out.
> Added BSSID 00:00:00:00:00:00 into blacklist
> </snip>
> 
> The same thing happens when i try to associate with the AP at work
> which uses WEP encryption, firstly i thought that i had some
> configuration errors on the wpa_supplicant conf file, but since it
> gives me the same error on an AP without encryption maybe the problem
> is elsewhere...
> 
> Thank you for reading and any replies.

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