FS#13559 - Networkmanager connection problems

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by João Vieira (Vieira) - Thursday, 26 February 2009, 15:53 GMT
Last edited by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Sunday, 31 May 2009, 20:25 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 2
Private No

Details

Description:
Networkmanager connects only randomly connects to wireless networks specially with WPA enabled ones. It keeps asking the key which is correct and only after a lot of tries it will eventually connect. No problems with this same router under Windows.

Additional info:
* networkmanager 0.7 (no problems with 0.6.x)
* networkmanager debug info:
NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): supplicant connection state: scanning -> associating
NetworkManager: <info> wlan0: link timed out.
* router is La Fonera 2.

Steps to reproduce:
* Try to connect to a WPA enabled network.
* Verify that after a few time networkmanager will ask the password again and again.
* After a lot of times it will eventually connect (with that same password).
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Closed by  Roman Kyrylych (Romashka)
Sunday, 31 May 2009, 20:25 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  seems to be fixed
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Thursday, 26 February 2009, 18:22 GMT
What wlan card do you have and how are its drivers?
Comment by João Vieira (Vieira) - Thursday, 26 February 2009, 18:43 GMT
Wireless chipset is Intel 4965 AGN and driver is iwlwifi-4965-ucode 228.57.2.23-1
Comment by Ricardo Rodrigues (Ricksa) - Thursday, 26 February 2009, 19:21 GMT
Same problem here, Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG and iwlwifi-3945-ucode 15.28.2.8-1
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Friday, 27 February 2009, 14:46 GMT
Does this also happen when you setup your wireless network manually using wpa_supplicant?
Comment by João Vieira (Vieira) - Saturday, 28 February 2009, 02:21 GMT
When setupping manually via wpa_supplicant all goes fine until the the step I run sudo dhpcd wlan0 when I get the following output:
wlan0: dhcpcd 4.0.10 starting
wlan0: waiting for carrier
wlan0: timed out
Comment by João Vieira (Vieira) - Friday, 20 March 2009, 20:38 GMT
It seems solved in Ubuntu. Any news in Arch?
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/329798
Comment by Quetzy Garcia (quetzyg) - Tuesday, 07 April 2009, 23:26 GMT
I've also got this problem on a desktop PC.

The wireless adapters I'm using are:
- USB Realtek 8187 wifi dongle (rtl8187)
- PCI ASUS wifi card with Broadcom chipset (b43)

If the connection isn't established immediately, it just stays there until it times out.
In that case, the trick to make it connect to the AP, is to restart the network manager daemon.

/etc/rc.d/networkmanager restart
Comment by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Sunday, 31 May 2009, 14:25 GMT
> It seems solved in Ubuntu. Any news in Arch?
Actually it is 'status: New -> Invalid' in Ubuntu.
I use b43 driver and didn't experience the discribed problem, but I think I'm connected using just WEP, not WPA.

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