Re: NDIS problem on 8.0-RELEASE

Paul B Mahol <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 11/29/09, Alex <[email protected]> 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
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