[Bug 463740] New: Network manager won't connect to wifi network
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=463740 Summary: Network manager won't connect to wifi network Product: openSUSE 11.1 Version: Final Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: openSUSE 11.1 Status: NEW Severity: Major Priority: P5 - None Component: Network AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: mark@marktaff.com QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: Community User Network manager won't connect to my college wifi network, though I can connect with iwconfig & ifup just fine. Net man also works fine at home and at work. Th college doesn't broadcast it's wifi's presence, by some means unknown to me. It won't even show up via iwlist. However, if you use iwconfig to set the essid to "Student-Wireless", then bring up eth1, then request an ip via dhcpcd, you *will* get a working network connection. It seems that network manager lacks the faith to try to connect. ;-) As soon as I tell tell net man to connect to "Student-Wireless", I get the passive popup notification that the network has disappeared. There seems to be two distinct issues here: 1) net man needs to actually try to make a connection, even it it seems unlikely; and, 2) net man needs a more robust method of determining if the connection is still available. Please let me know if you need more info, or if you need me to test possible fixes. Thanks! Regards, Mark A. Taff -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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Andreas Jaeger
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=463740 User mark@marktaff.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=463740#c2 --- Comment #2 from Mark Taff 2009-01-22 15:37:50 MST --- Created an attachment (id=267047) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=267047) wpa_supplicant log -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=463740 User mark@marktaff.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=463740#c3 --- Comment #3 from Mark Taff 2009-01-22 15:38:33 MST --- Created an attachment (id=267048) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=267048) dmesg output -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=463740 User mark@marktaff.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=463740#c4 --- Comment #4 from Mark Taff 2009-01-22 15:39:23 MST --- Created an attachment (id=267049) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=267049) Network Manager Log -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=463740 User mark@marktaff.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=463740#c5 Mark Taff changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW Info Provider|mark@marktaff.com | --- Comment #5 from Mark Taff 2009-01-22 15:46:03 MST --- Created an attachment (id=267056) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=267056) Iwlist log Since I filed this bug,I have written a bash script to connect automatically to networks based on the location of my laptop. In the process of coding that script, I some weird output from iwlist (log attached). Basically, doing iwlist without specifying the essid results in output where some ap are detected (perhaps for the faculty network?) with essids using a hex number as the essid. Specifying the essid results in iwlist finding the proper access points. Thanks, Andreas. HTH, Mark -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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Tambet Ingo
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=463740 User mark@marktaff.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=463740#c7 Mark Taff changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW CC| |mark@marktaff.com Info Provider|mark@marktaff.com | --- Comment #7 from Mark Taff 2009-01-23 16:03:58 MST --- wpa_supplicant logging *was* turned on the first time, per those instructions. Perhaps the instructions are erroneous? I see no merit in running those commands again without anything else changing. If you want different results, then please give me different commands to execute, and I will run those new commands next week. Thanks, Mark -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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