Why wpa_supplicant doesn't start with ndis0 interface?

[Glen Barber]

On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 08:34:40AM -0700, Yuri wrote:
> On 09/12/2012 20:01, Glen Barber wrote:
> > It would be helpful if you would at least try my cron(8) suggestion.
> 
> So I tried adding the lines into crontab:
> @reboot root    /sbin/kldload /boot/kernel/if_ndis.ko >/dev/null 2>&1
> @reboot root    /sbin/kldload /boot/modules/bcmwl5_sys.ko >/dev/null 2>&1
> 
> Firstly, for some reason, this method fails to load bcmwl5_sys.ko with 
> the error message:
> KLD bcmwl5_sys.ko: depends on ndis - not available or version mismatch
> 

Hmm.  This should also be loading ndis.ko.  If not, add that to the cron
line as well.  If that is the problem, sorry, that was my mistake.

Also, are your kernel and userland in sync?

And is this module built on the kernel you are currently running?

Glen

> However, command 'kldload /boot/modules/bcmwl5_sys.ko' typed manually 
> after boot succeeds without any messages. This is a mystery to me, why 
> one way to run it produces this message and another one doesn't.
> 
> And '/etc/rc.d/netif start' still doesn't start wifi even though all 
> kernel modules were loaded after kernel boot.
> 
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