Problems making WPA work with ndiswrapper/broadcom

[Donald Teed]

Yes, now that I'm getting this close, I've started launching
dhcpcd just before wpa_supplicant, on wlan0.  I'm using
slackware 9 in this test.

I'll get back about the AP model later today, and I'll try
a longer time out on authentication.

I'm using ndiswrapper 0.9 - the first to support WPA
as far as I'm aware.  Hmmm, there is a .10 pre-release now.
Maybe I'll try it.

One thing worth noting is that the broadcom wireless ethernet
is out in a few different revisions and I'm using rev 3.
There is no difference in the lspci -n output between that
and rev 2 (I have another very similar Dell D600).

We have seen some differences in the system stability when
ndiswrapper 0.8 was used on the two machines.  The rev 3
machine would lock up when booting with no AC power and
loading ndiswrapper, and also when using the winmoodem
(which I believe shares the same mini-PCI part).
The same tests (with the disk moved to the older machine)
were done on the machine with rev 2 chipset and no lockups occurred
in these situations.  Unfortunately we have 4494 machines
with the rev 3 broadcom wireless, and 6 with the rev 2.

Again, this is using:

02:03.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation: Unknown device 4320 (rev 03)
          Subsystem: Dell Computer Corporation: Unknown device 0003
          Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 32, IRQ 7
          Memory at fafee000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]

02:03.0 Class 0280: 14e4:4320 (rev 03)


--Donald Teed


On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, Giridhar Pemmasani wrote:

>
> You need to start dhclient/dhcpcd/pump (or whatever tool you use to
> configure your interface) at the same time. Are you starting it?
>
> --
> Giri
>
>