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PianoMasta7

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Registered: 2012-09-04

Posts: 4

Wicd can't connect with driver Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205

I've been trying for the past few days to try to connect to my college's wireless, which is WPA2-PEAP, but wicd can't do it. It times out on validating authentication for awhile, then says bad password. I'm more than positive it's not a bad password, because it works on my phone and my Nexus.
After reading the log, it says it's wpa_supplicant authentication failing. So I edited my wpa_supplicant and used it to connect, but it fails as well.
At this point I'm thinking drivers.

Any suggestions?

WonderWoofy

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From: Los Gatos, CA

Registered: 2012-05-19

Posts: 8,414

Re: Wicd can't connect with driver Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205

$ lspci -v 
$ lsmod 

Those should help you determine what module/driver is being used for your device and if there are other (similarly named) modules that might be conflicting with it.

I would have to assume that with a Intel 6205, you are using iwlwifi? Maybe you need firmware?  So has this card worked for you in the past?

PianoMasta7

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Registered: 2012-09-04

Posts: 4

Re: Wicd can't connect with driver Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205

lspci -v

03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N 6205 (rev 34)
        Subsystem: Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N 6205 AGN
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 45
        Memory at f3000000 (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 60-67-20-ff-ff-44-c9-78
        Kernel driver in use: iwlwifi

lsmod

..
iwlwifi               304490  0 
..

Not entirely sure what this could mean.
As for the card working in the past, as far as I know, it should have. I installed Arch on it a few hours after getting it.
I assume it wouldn't have a problem.

Last edited by PianoMasta7 (2012-09-04 15:18:56)

WonderWoofy

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From: Los Gatos, CA

Registered: 2012-05-19

Posts: 8,414

Re: Wicd can't connect with driver Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205

If you just installed arch, can you boot from the live disc and connect?  I assume you had to have connected to install, yeah?  Also, the reason you might have wanted to look in at the output of lsmod (one of the reasons) is to see if there are other iwl* loaded as well.  This can seriously f* some things up, and if this is the situation, you may need to blacklist the non-relevant modules.

rado3105

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Registered: 2011-10-09

Posts: 103

Re: Wicd can't connect with driver Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205

I have this problem also. On some wireless networks it works, on some not.
https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/use … rs/iwlwifi (this doesnt helped).

this also doesnt helped:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/linu … t-iwlwifi/

Does anybody solved this?

x33a

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Registered: 2009-08-15

Posts: 4,587

Re: Wicd can't connect with driver Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205

@rado3105,

please open a new thread with a detailed description of your problem, instead of bumping an old thread.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … bumping.22

Closing.