http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=177798
I am having the exact same problem. Wierd thing is, in Fedora 7 everything worked flawlessly (I even blogged about how to get everything running
here (see step 11)). Problem is as soon as I upgraded to Fedora 8, I followed my instructions, and everything seemed to work (eg. I can see the wifi device and local networks) but as soon as I try to connect, I get nothing other than the spinning circles. I have no idea how to use any other wifi application (i tried wifi-radar but no networks showed up) and cannot manually set the network / device via a file in the filesystem (I move around alot, connecting to several networks).
Nothing is fancy about my network setup. I have a linksys router, serving a WPA/TKIP/Preshared-Key network. On my local side, wpa_supplicant is running, and you can see alot of diagnosis output below.
One thing to note, is I disabled IPV6 on my system as whenever I tried to connect my wifi card would be assigned an IPV6 address (I have no idea how, as I'm absolutely sure I have no IPV6 devices on my network) before exhibiting the aforementioned issue. The following is as much information as I could think to include, feel free to ask for more if it'll help.
Code:
uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.23.9-85.fc8 #1 SMP Fri Dec 7 15:49:59 EST 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
Code:
lspci -vvv
0c:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM94311MCG wlan mini-PCI (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 0007
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 17
Region 0: Memory at f9ffc000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Code:
dmesg | grep wlan
wlan0: ethernet device 00:1c:26:63:d8:d4 using NDIS driver: bcmwl5, version: 0x4640f05, NDIS version: 0x501, vendor: 'NDIS Network Adapter', 14E4:4311.5.conf
wlan0: encryption modes supported: WEP; TKIP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2PSK; AES/CCMP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2PSK
Code:
/sbin/ifconfig
...
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1C:26:63:D8:D4
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:39 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:38 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:4407 (4.3 KiB) TX bytes:5282 (5.1 KiB)
Interrupt:17 Memory:f9ffc000-fa000000
Code:
/sbin/iwlist wlan0 scanning
wlan0 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 00:40:10:10:00:03
ESSID:"GRIDNET"
Protocol:IEEE 802.11g
Mode:Managed
Frequency:2.412 GHz (Channel 1)
Quality:87/100 Signal level:-40 dBm Noise level:-96 dBm
Encryption key:on
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
12 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s
Extra:bcn_int=100
Extra:atim=0
IE: WPA Version 1
Group Cipher : TKIP
Pairwise Ciphers (1) : TKIP
Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
Cell 02 - Address: 00:0C:41:CA:27:ED
ESSID:"knrlinksys"
Protocol:IEEE 802.11b
Mode:Managed
Frequency:2.437 GHz (Channel 6)
Quality:7/100 Signal level:-91 dBm Noise level:-96 dBm
Encryption key:on
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s
Extra:bcn_int=100
Extra:atim=0
IE: WPA Version 1
Group Cipher : TKIP
Pairwise Ciphers (1) : TKIP
Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
Code:
cat /etc/modprobe.conf
alias eth0 tg3
alias scsi_hostadapter libata
alias scsi_hostadapter1 ata_piix
alias scsi_hostadapter2 usb-storage
alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel
options snd-card-0 index=0
options snd-hda-intel index=0
#alias wlan0 b43
alias net-pf-10 off
alias ipv6 off
Code:
cat /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper
alias wlan0 ndiswrapper
I downloaded an installed wlassistant as suggested, it starts up, I see my network, I configure it, but when I goto connect, I get the following:
Code:
ACTION: CONNECT.
No DHCP client running.
No pre-connection command specified.
iwconfig_set: /sbin/iwconfig wlan0 mode managed channel 1 key off essid GRIDNET
==>stderr: Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) :
SET failed on device wlan0 ; Operation not permitted.
iwconfig_ap: /sbin/iwconfig wlan0 ap 00:40:10:10:00:03
==>stderr: Error for wireless request "Set AP Address" (8B14) :
SET failed on device wlan0 ; Operation not permitted.
==>stderr: Failed to connect to wpa_supplicant - wpa_ctrl_open: No such file or directory
Using wpa_supplicant driver: wext
WPA client started. Waiting for status...
==>stderr: Failed to connect to wpa_supplicant - wpa_ctrl_open: No such file or directory
CONNECTION FAILED.
disconnect: /sbin/iwconfig wlan0 mode managed key off ap off essid off
==>stderr: Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) :
SET failed on device wlan0 ; Operation not permitted.
Code:
sudo /usr/sbin/wpa_cli status
Failed to connect to wpa_supplicant - wpa_ctrl_open: Success
From the last two blurbs it seems like not being able to connect to wpa_supplicant could be the problem. I tried googling it, and found others in the same situation, but unfortunately no answer. One very very important thing to note is connecting to an unsecured network works flawlessly!!!! So obviously the problem is something w/ wpa_supplicant
Code:
cat /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group=wheel
I am really lost on this one (I have had wireless woes before but never the situation where I am able to see networks but not connection) so any help will be appreciated. Thanks alot!
Linear Mode
