Why wpa_supplicant doesn't start with ndis0 interface?

[Glen Barber]

On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 06:29:12PM -0700, Yuri wrote:
> I have the ndis based driver preloaded during boot. It creates ndis0 
> interface.
> /etc/rc.conf has the following lines:
> wlans_ndis0="wlan0"
> ifconfig_wlan0="WPA DHCP"
> 
> However, wlan0 device isn't being created during system boot or during 
> '/etc/rc.d/netif start'.
> '/etc/rc.d/wpa_supplicant start' also silently doesn't do anything.
> 
> Only commands typed manually:
>  > ifconfig wlan create wlandev ndis0
>  > wpa_supplicant -D ndis -i wlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
>  > dhclient wlan0
> start wireless network.
> 
> On another machine with ath0 wireless interface similar configuration 
> works fine.
> 
> How can I understand why wireless doesn't start during boot?
> 

What is 'uname -a'?

I'm surprised you can have ndis(4) load during boot.  Recent machines I
tried to do that have panic'd during boot.

Can you try creating a crontab entry to load ndis(4) post-boot?

    # start ndis(4) post-boot
    @reboot root    /sbin/kldload /boot/kernel/if_ndis.ko >/dev/null 2>&1

Something similar to that worked for me to get the device to work close
to boot time, without panic.  Once loaded, wpa_supplicant(8) worked
fine.

Please also see:

    http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/165630

which I would would be MFC'd already...

Glen

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