Anyone able to use Broadcom WiFi Card with encryption?

[Dimiter Ivanov]

On 9/15/06, Colin Faber <cfaber at ruckusmail.com> wrote:
> Dimiter Ivanov wrote:
> > On 9/15/06, Colin Faber <cfaber at ruckusmail.com> wrote:
> >> I'm running a broadcom mini-pci card on a WPA-PSK network with no
> >> problems.
> >>
> >> You need to make sure that you've loaded the correct kernel modules to
> >> support the encryption in question. Also, IIRC, some cards will not
> >> support some types of encryption at all. Yours may be one of them.
> >>
> >> -cf
> >
> > A light in the tunel! :)
> > Well i'm pretty sure the card supports WPA-PSK & WEP because that's
> > how i connect to the networks at work, but only using windows.
> >
> > So the problem must be with the 'correct kernel modules'
> > Which modules do i need to load.
> > And how do i connect using WPA-PSK, i've been trying with
> > wpa_supplicant , but i'm not sure that it supports cards with ndis-ed
> > drivers, because it wont associate to an AP even without encryption.
> You'll need crypto, wlan, wlan_tkip, and wlan_wep.
>
> In your rc.conf: ifconfig_ndis0="WPA DHCP"
>
> In your wpa_suplicant.conf:
>
> network={
>     ssid="your-ssid"
>     psk="somepresharedkey"
> }
> network={
>     ssid="someother-ssid"
>     other options ...
> }

Thank you very much, it appears that what i was missing is to specify
the -D switch when calling the wpa_supplicant.
Now everything works very nicely.