Anyone able to use Broadcom WiFi Card with encryption?

Colin Faber cfaber at ruckusmail.com
Fri Sep 15 07:39:12 PDT 2006


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 ...
}



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