F12 and wifi Link 5100

[egcp]

Hi,

I have Dell Precision M6400 with an Intel Wireless WiFi Link 5100. Under F11 the wireless worked flawlessly with Network Manager, but now under F12 is giving me problems. F12 recognizes the card and when I first boot, the NetworkManager Applet sees the wireless network I'm trying to connect to as available, but when I try to connect to it I get the message on the wpa_supplicant.log below, and then that wireless network does not show up again as available until I reboot the computer.
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Failed to initiate AP scan.
Trying to associate with 00:14:f2:70:d8:b0 (SSID='bgsu' freq=2412 MHz)
CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED - Disconnect event - remove keys
Authentication with 00:00:00:00:00:00 timed out.
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NetworkManager-0.7.997-2.git20091214.fc12.x86_64
wpa_supplicant-0.6.8-8.fc12.x86_64
iwl5000-firmware-8.24.2.12-2.noarch

Any help figuring out this problem would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!
egcp

[egcp]

Hi,

I'm also getting these messages from the messages system log. Wireless is NOT working. Hopefully somebody can point me in the right direction to get it fixed.

Thanks,
egcp

NetworkManager: <info> wlan0: link timed out.
NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): supplicant connection state: disconnected -> scanning
NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): supplicant connection state: scanning -> associating
NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): supplicant connection state: associating -> disconnected
NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0/wireless): association took too long, failing activation.
NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): device state change: 5 -> 9 (reason 11)
NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) failed for access point (bgsu)
NetworkManager: <info> Marking connection 'Wireless connection 1' invalid.
NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) failed.
NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): device state change: 9 -> 3 (reason 0)
NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): deactivating device (reason: 0).

[bbfuller]

Hello egcp

Is that a clean install of F12 or is it an update from a previous version?

[egcp]

Hi,

It is a clean install of F12.

-egcp

[bbfuller]

Hello egcp

The reason I asked is that I have a 5100 in F12 and it just connected when I inputted the encryption key.

As wireless has changed so fast recently in Linux it's easy for it to get messed up in an upgrade so it was best to ask the question first.

Here's the output of:

lspci -vnn

02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 5100 AGN [Shiloh] Network Connection [8086:4237]
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device [8086:1211]
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 32
Memory at d8700000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
Capabilities: [c8] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [d0] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
Capabilities: [e0] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
Capabilities: [140] Device Serial Number 00-1e-65-ff-ff-8a-33-00
Kernel driver in use: iwlagn
Kernel modules: iwlagn

in a full root terminal for my card. Is yours any different?

What's the output of:

nm-tool

on your machine?

As an experiment, are you able to turn off wireless encryption on your access point for a short while?

[egcp]

Thanks for your quick reply. Here are the output form the commands. -egcp

lspci -vnn

0c:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Wireless WiFi Link 5100 [8086:4232]
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Wireless WiFi Link 5100 [8086:1321]
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 32
Memory at f1ffe000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
Capabilities: [c8] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [d0] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
Capabilities: [e0] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
Capabilities: [140] Device Serial Number 00-22-fb-ff-ff-9f-1e-08
Kernel driver in use: iwlagn
Kernel modules: iwlagn

nm-tool

NetworkManager Tool

State: connected

- Device: wlan0 ----------------------------------------------------------------
Type: 802.11 WiFi
Driver: iwlagn
State: disconnected
Default: no
HW Address: 00:22:FB:9F:1E:08

Capabilities:

Wireless Properties
WEP Encryption: yes
WPA Encryption: yes
WPA2 Encryption: yes

Wireless Access Points
bgsu: Infra, 00:14:F2:70:D3:A0, Freq 2437 MHz, Rate 0 Mb/s, Strength 52

I don't have control over the access point (I'm in a school), but the setting for Wireless security they ask you to set it to "none".

[bbfuller]

Hello egcp

Your card details are slightly different to mine, but I don't think we'll ever know if that is relevant or not.

My other suggestion was going to be try it without encryption because that can be a bother. As you are already in that situation I think the only thing I can suggest now is trying against some other access point.

It's not going to solve the problem, but it will at least tell us if we are looking at a general problem with your card or an incompatibility with that particular access point.