NDIS problem on 8.0-RELEASE

[Paul B Mahol]

On 11/28/09, Alex <alex323 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Nov 2009 00:59:26 +0100
> Paul B Mahol <onemda at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 11/29/09, Alex <alex323 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hello. I have been using wireless drivers generated from ndisgen on
>> > 7.2 quite successfully. I installed 8.0-RELEASE, recompiled the
>> > driver, and sadly wireless is not functioning:
>> >
>> > orion# wpa_supplicant -dd -Dndis -i ndis0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
>> > ...
>> > Initializing interface (2) 'ndis0'
>> > NDIS: Packet.dll version: FreeBSD WinPcap compatibility shim v1.0
>> > NDIS: 1 adapter names found
>> > NDIS: 0 -  - dummy description
>> > NDIS: Could not find interface 'ndis0'
>> > Failed to initialize driver interface
>> > Failed to add interface ndis0
>> > Cancelling scan request
>> > Cancelling authentication timeout
>> > orion# ifconfig ndis0
>> > ndis0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 2290
>> > 	ether 00:24:2c:e7:2d:fd
>> > 	media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect)
>> > 	status: no carrier
>> >
>> > Does anyone know what is wrong? I wouldn't have expected an upgrade
>> > to break previous functionality.
>> >
>>
>> with 8.0 you need to create wlanX:
>>
>> # ifconfig wlan create wlandev ndis0
>>
>> and replace ndis0 with wlan0:
>>
>> # wpa_supplicant -dd -Dndis -i wlan0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
>
> That appears to have helped, but for some reason wpa_supplicant keeps
> looping through its internal states. For example it'll be associated in
> one moment and disconnected in the next (after which point it loops
> over and over). Does anything special need to be done in rc.conf?
> wpa_supplicant.conf? I am using the same wpa_supplicant.conf file that
> worked under 7.2.

Could you post wpa_supplicant debug output?

> Eventually I will need to set up rc.conf so that it automates the
> process of creating wlan0 as well.
>
> Any insight you could provide would be much appreciated.

wlans_ndis0="wlan0"
ifconfig_wlan0="WPA SYNCDHCP"