Re: [Feedback needed] "brcmsmac" wifi driver in testing

[Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk>]

On Sun 31 Jul 2011 at 13:22:45 +0000, Camaleón wrote:

> On Sun, 31 Jul 2011 15:24:11 +0300, Volkan YAZICI wrote:
> 
> > Oh, and I forgot to say in the previous mail: Turn everything fiddling
> > with the wifi interfaces off, that is, nm, hostapd, etc., before trying
> > any manual method.
> 
> Hey, that did it! At least for wlan2 card :-)
> 
> By stopping NM now wpa_assintant runs fine for wlan2 while wlan0 (the one with
> broadcom chipset) fails in the same way it did.

By default wpa_supplicant will use the wext driver. Try nl80211.

  wpa_supplicant -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf -D nl80211 -i wlan2

Also you could reduce the wpa_supplicant.conf file down to

  ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant

  network={
      ssid="WLAN_6D"
      psk="my_pass"
}

and let the supplicant take care of negotiating encryption.