laptop wlan cannot connect to some smartphones wifi hotspots

ondoho · 08-23-2014, 08:57 AM

the wifi-card is a SiS163u USB card (although it's in a slot inside the laptop).
i had a hard time getting it to work with ndiswrapper.

I can connect with my own android phone, which runs an older version (android verison 2.3.7, kernel 2.6.3514-..., armv6), but not with other (newer?) phones.

i repeatedly tried with 2 rather new samsung phones (android kitkat i guess) and 1 iphone.
they seem to connect and authenticate, but from wicd config window it looks like the authentication just hangs.

the phones create standard encrypted hotspots (wpa2 i guess).
i tried an unencrypted connection with one of the android phone, but the result was the same:

wicd sees the device, connects to it (there's feedback about that on the computer & on the phone) but ultimately there's no internet connection (ping just hangs there until i ctrl-c it).

i am sorry i cannot provide all information right now; the phones are not mine (it works flawlessly with my android phone) and the computer is at work.
it's a Amilo La 1703 (shudder).
it runs crunchbang (debian stable).
i have replaced networkmanager with wicd.

Code:

██ uname -rv
3.2.0-4-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.2.60-1+deb7u3
██ lspci -knn | grep -EiA2 net
00:12.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] [1106:3065] (rev 7c)
	Subsystem: Fujitsu Technology Solutions Device [1734:10d9]
	Kernel driver in use: via-rhine
██ dmesg|grep -Ei 'wlan|firmw|dhc'
[   12.446868] wlan0: ethernet device 00:30:05:da:0d:18 using NDIS driver: sis163u, version: 0x1000000, NDIS version: 0x501, vendor: 'NDIS Network Adapter', 0BF8:100F.F.conf
[   12.450475] wlan0: encryption modes supported: WEP; TKIP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2-PSK; AES/CCMP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2-PSK
[   27.187435] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[   84.882969] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[   85.243603] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[   97.664373] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready
[  108.208033] wlan0: no IPv6 routers present
[ 1596.344363] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[ 1604.369324] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[ 1604.642376] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[ 1616.973640] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready
[ 1624.336714] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[ 1624.349907] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[ 1625.923483] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[ 1626.134493] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[ 1652.425081] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[ 1652.682923] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[ 1665.045941] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready
[ 1675.136031] wlan0: no IPv6 routers present
[ 2105.098851] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[ 2185.573380] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[ 2185.883528] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[ 2198.287214] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready
[ 2208.808066] wlan0: no IPv6 routers present
[ 2882.356939] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[ 2891.717407] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[ 2892.010136] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[ 2904.353482] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready
[ 2915.296032] wlan0: no IPv6 routers present
[ 7745.280118] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[ 7747.900877] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[ 8637.837924] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[ 8638.082853] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[ 8650.393909] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready
[ 8657.293580] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[ 8657.306359] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[ 8729.477921] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[ 8729.746751] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[ 8742.072210] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready
[ 8752.272032] wlan0: no IPv6 routers present
██ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0bf8:100f Fujitsu Siemens Computers miniCard D2301 802.11bg Wireless Module [SiS 163U]
██ sudo rfkill list
██

dmesg output does not contain smartphone hotspot connection issue.

business_kid · 08-23-2014, 02:23 PM

There's a setting on the Android phones about what devices to allow on. You can make a list and accept them. Basically it's used to save phone bandwidth. Try that first.