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DrPrismarineNeoBluefall

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Registered: 2019-08-20

Posts: 1

WPA Supplicant issue: Authentication request to the driver failed

So I was working on setting up an install of Arch, and I actually did get one going until I tried to connect to the internet, and saw that it didn't work. Eventually, that led me down the rabbit hole of grabbing my Live USB, booting from there, and seeing what was up, to find that  wpa_supplicant just *refuses* to work.

Whenever I try to run the command, it outputs this:

Successfully initialized wpa_supplicant
wlp2s0: SME: Trying to authenticate with a8:9a:93:a0:08:5e (SSID='LSG' freq=2412 MHz)
wlp2s0: SME: Authentication request to the driver failed
wlp2s0: SME: Trying to authenticate with a8:9a:93:a0:08:5e (SSID='LSG' freq=2412 MHz)
wlp2s0: SME: Authentication request to the driver failed
wlp2s0: SME: Trying to authenticate with a8:9a:93:a0:08:5e (SSID='LSG' freq=2412 MHz)
wlp2s0: SME: Authentication request to the driver failed
wlp2s0: SME: Trying to authenticate with a8:9a:93:a0:08:5e (SSID='LSG' freq=2412 MHz)
wlp2s0: SME: Authentication request to the driver failed

Eventually, it just gets caught in a loop of outputting this:

wlp2s0: CTRL-EVENT-SSID-REENABLED
wlp2s0: SME: Trying to authenticate with a8:9a:93:a0:08:5e (SSID='LSG' freq=2412 MHz)
wlp2s0: SME: Authentication request to the driver failed
wlp2s0: CTRL-EVENT-SSID-TEMP-DISABLED id=0 ssid='LSG' auth_failures=x duration=y reason=CONN_FAILED

I have no idea what could have been the cause of this, given that it had worked on my first install of Arch. Any advice is appreciated.

phymod0

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Registered: 2019-08-03

Posts: 1

Re: WPA Supplicant issue: Authentication request to the driver failed

Post the output of wpa_supplicant with -dd. Might give us a better idea.

Trilby

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Registered: 2011-11-29

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Re: WPA Supplicant issue: Authentication request to the driver failed

What driver are you using?  What is your wireless hardware?  When you postthe new output, include the complete command and output.

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