Can't connect to wifi through NetworkManager
This is on a laptop Packard Bell EasyNote tk37
Slackware64-current Thu Oct 24 01:22:57 UTC 2013 Wired connections works through NM, wireless don't. wep mode set on my ADSL modem (Freebox). Wireless works with the my ThinkPad (same system). Code:
bash-4.2# lspci -vnn|grep -A11 Network Code:
bash-4.2# iwlist scan What should I look at to investigate further? |
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what happens when you try to connect manually:
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sudo iwconfig wlan0 essid Didier |
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# dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest=fi.w1.wpa_supplicant1 /fi/w1/wpa_supplicant1 org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.Set string:fi.w1.wpa_supplicant1 string:DebugLevel variant:string:"msgdump" Code:
bash-4.2# cat /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf |
The dbus-send commands are run as root on the command line.
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Why are you running WEP? It is irrecoverably broken from a security standpoint. |
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That's in a house in the woods, 300 m from nearest neighbor ;) And that makes easier for my wife to watch TV on her smartphone (ever tried to type a WPA key on one of those?) Nevertheless thanks for your remark, I will try to use wpa and see if that helps. |
@ mancha: it took me _some_time_ to realize that you meant commands to type as root...
Is following output expected? Code:
bash-4.2# dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest=fi.w1.wpa_supplicant1 /fi/w1/wpa_supplicant1 org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.Set string:fi.w1.wpa_supplicant1 string:DebugLevel variant:string:"msgdump" Code:
bash-4.2# tail --lines 50 /var/log/wpa_supplicant.log |
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Hi Didier.
There was a small typo in the command, use these: Code:
dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest=fi.w1.wpa_supplicant1 /fi/w1/wpa_supplicant1 org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.Set string:fi.w1.wpa_supplicant1 string:DebugLevel variant:string:"msgdump" Note: the typo was the "e" in /fi/ew1/wpa_supplicant1 |
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Hi Mancha,
here are the logs. See the trace in syslog... syslog: http://pastebin.com/PVCfxTtb wpa_supplicant.log: http://pastebin.com/feijBDxK |
OK. This is helping us get to the problem.
Let's try the low-hanging fruit first. The multiple disconnections could be related to a stale or multiple wpa_supplicant instances. Let's get rid of them all: Code:
killall wpa_supplicant If these things don't work, let's move to Plan B. |
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I'm marking this thread as solved, though TBH I didn't actually understand what was going wrong and why it works now. Anyway all is well that ends well. Thanks everybody, especially mancha. |
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