I'm trying to log into an Access point with WPA-Personal 1.0, using a Broadcom BCM4306 card ndiswrapper and wpa_supplicant. I haven't had a problem with this setup in the past - in fact, it works beautifully - but now, it looks as though ndiswrapper is refusing to associate with the AP. Here's the output when I execute: wpa_supplicant -Dndiswrapper -iwlan0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf ... Trying to associat with [access point MAC addy] Association request to the driver failed. Authentication with 00:00:00:00:00:00 timed out. ... Thanks This repeats until I Ctrl-C the command and kill it. Ndiswrapper didn't complain about anything during the install, and correctly identifies the driver and hardware in dmesg (there are no errors there either). All /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf contains is these 4 lines: network={ ssid="[ssid name]" psk="[psk]" } I am using the testing portage tree. I will probably downgrade to stable for the time being...
I have the same exact problem with this bcmwl5 device: 02:06.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03) I'm using it right now to post this message with ndiswrapper-1.15 + linux-2.6.16 both compiled with gcc-3.3.6 . The problem happens if I try to upgrade to ndiswrapper-1.16 which needs to be compiled with at least gcc-3.4. So I tried compiling linux-2.6.16 and ndiswrapper-1.16 with gcc-3.4 and gcc-4.1.1 and in both cases wpa_supplicant just hangs when it tries to connect to open or WPA protected AP's. I posted this message here also: http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=870 Good to see that I'm not the only one with this problem.
-Dndiswrapper is deprecated in 1.16, try -Dwext
that fixed the problem with gcc-4.1.1 and ndiswrapper-1.16 . You can close this bug, it should work for you too.
Yup, that fixes it here too. Thanks for the heads up! I'll go ahead and mark it resolved.
