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Ovar

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Registered: 2012-01-31

Posts: 2

Problems connecting to wireless network. (ath9k & dongle)

Hi, I'm having issues connecting to wireless networks using my laptop. I don't think it's a driver issue because I have tried both the on-board card (ath9k) and 2 different types of wifi USB dongle. The access point uses WPA encryption, however I had the same problems under WEP. I first lost wifi capability after a kernel update and a search of the forums and google seemed to show this was a kernel error. It could also be kmod as this came in on the same update. I have tried a reinstall of Arch with no success.

Below is the netcfg profile I'm trying to use:

CONNECTION="wireless"
ESSID="{ESSID}"
INTERFACE="wlan0"
DESCRIPTION="Automatically generated profile"
SCAN="yes"
IP="dhcp"
TIMEOUT="10"
SECURITY="wpa"
KEY="{KEY}"
QUIRKS=(preessid)

If anyone has any ideas I would love to hear them and if you require any extra information I will post said.

Thank you in advance, Ovar.

Abhishek_Harlalka

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From: India

Registered: 2012-03-30

Posts: 19

Re: Problems connecting to wireless network. (ath9k & dongle)

try ip link
check if wlan0 comes

Strike0

Member

From: Germany

Registered: 2011-09-05

Posts: 1,491

Re: Problems connecting to wireless network. (ath9k & dongle)

Yes, trying a manual connection might give a clearer idea what kind of problems those are, see the steps at: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wi … nual_setup

Ovar

Member

Registered: 2012-01-31

Posts: 2

Re: Problems connecting to wireless network. (ath9k & dongle)

I've just tried a manual connection but it didn't work either, one thing I did find is that the error seems to occur during the 4-way handshake.

Strike0

Member

From: Germany

Registered: 2011-09-05

Posts: 1,491

Re: Problems connecting to wireless network. (ath9k & dongle)

Did you configure wpa_supplicant fresh manually for that or is it using old authentification data?
Maybe have a look at "wifi-select", great little tool.