kern/130820: [ndis] wpa_supplicant(8) returns 'no space on device'

[Paul B. Mahol]

On 2/5/09, Erwin Hoffmann <feh at fehcom.de> wrote:
> Hi Paul,
>
>
> --On 5. Februar 2009 18:56:06 +0100 "Paul B. Mahol" <onemda at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On 2/5/09, Erwin Hoffmann <feh at fehcom.de> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I just saw Paul Mahol's comment:
>>>
>>>> Yet another invalid bug report.
>>>> OP should use -Dndis and not -Dbsd
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Paul
>>>
>>> Well. If things would be sooo easy.
>>> Trying to declare "-D ndis" in the wpa_supplicant call as additional
>>> argument yields:
>>>
>>> artemis# pwd
>>> /etc/rc.d
>>> artemis# ./wpa_supplicant start ndis0
>>> Starting wpa_supplicant.
>>> Unsupported driver 'ndis'.
>>>
>>> This is my kernel setup:
>>>
>>> artemis# kldstat -v | grep wlan
>>>                 300 wlan_ccmp
>>>                 301 wlan_tkip
>>>                 302 wlan_wep
>>>                 303 wlan
>>>
>>> artemis# kldstat -v | grep ndis
>>>  5    3 0xc0c73000 17734    ndis.ko
>>>                  3 ndisapi
>>>  6    2 0xc0c8b000 caa4     if_ndis.ko
>>>                  4 cardbus/ndis
>>>                  5 pci/ndis
>>>                  6 pccard/ndis
>>>                  7 uhub/ndis
>>>
>>> What am I missing ?
>>>
>>
>> wpa_supplicant works fine on 8.0 with ndisX vaps. (and on 7 branch it
>> should work too)
>>
>> Your is not configured with support for ndis. Please read carefully
>> wpa_supplicant configuration options.
>
> It would help me (and everybody) if you could shed a little light on that
> subject.
>
> Apart from patching wpa_supplicant 0.3.11 and the most current to work
> under FreeBSD, I'm probably missing an import piece of information. Neither
> the man pages nor the current FreeBSD docs indicate (at least for me) the
> necessary adjustments.


wpa_supplicant is contributed software located in
/usr/src/contrib/wpa_supplicant/

Makefiles to build wpa_supplicat for FreeBSD are in
/usr/src/usr.sbin/wpa/wpa_supplicant/

-- 
Paul