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Hey everyone... I've searched the thread archives and haven't found a solution to this yet...
I'm having a hard time connecting to any of my school networks. One is a guest network, one is a wpa2 encrypted network.
Using nmcli to connect (after creating the profile) I get the following error:
└─> nmcli con up id <SCHOOL>.edu
Active connection state: activating
Active connection path: /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/ActiveConnection/1
** (process:6888): WARNING **: _nm_object_get_property: Error getting 'State' for /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/ActiveConnection/1: (19) Method "Get" with signature "ss" on interface "org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties" doesn't exist
state: unknown
Error: Connection activation failed.
Using netcfg with the following config, it never connects saying "WPA Authentication/Association Failed"
CONNECTION='wireless'
INTERFACE=wlan0
SECURITY='wpa-configsection'
IP='dhcp'
CONFIGSECTION='
ssid="<SCHOOL>.edu"
key_mgmt=WPA-EAP
eap=PEAP
group=CCMP
pairwise=CCMP
identity="wei001"
password="<PASSWORD>"
priority=1
phase2="auth=MSCHAPV2"'
I would be OK using either of these methods, but neither of them seem to work... any ideas?
EDIT:
This method works, but takes a couple of tries to finally connect.
ifconfig wlan0 down
ifconfig wlan0 up
iwlist wlan0 scan
iwconfig wlan0 essid "network_name"
dhcpcd wlan0
Last edited by earsplit (2012-04-18 16:17:20)
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I am not really sure about the particular error you are mentioning but I have had several issues with connecting to encrypted wireless networks previously. However, most of my problems have "disappeared" since I installed wicd (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wicd) and started managing my connections via wicd. Of course, this is hardly a solution to the problem you're facing here, but wicd is really easy to set up and run, so it might be worth a try.
/Zolas
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Generally you don't need to set group and pairwise. Also, do you maybe need a certificate?
This thread maybe has some insights that might help you: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=133055
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I think it might be a problem with my wireless driver. I can't even connect to the school's unsecured guest network...
Thanks for the tip on Wicd by the way. It looks like a great interface. Only problem is getting it working. It hovers over "Obtaining IP Address" and then times out.
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Whats your wireless card? I remember having a similiar issue like this on a friend's netbook trying to connect to a PEAP network with an Ralink card. Switching to their proprietary drivers fixed it. This was awhile back though and with Ubuntu.
Last edited by Pres (2012-04-17 19:56:29)
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Its a Bigfoot Killer-N. It worked fine in Ubuntu.
Pokin around, I found out I have an ath9k device, which apparently isn't supported with the 3.3.1 kernel.
lspci
04:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9300 Wireless LAN adaptor (rev 01)
uname -r
3.3.2-1-ARCH
A few people have reported this fixed in this kernel, but I still can't connect?
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CONNECTION='wireless'
DESCRIPTION='A simple opened wireless connection'
INTERFACE='wlan0'
SECURITY='none'
ESSID='Lindenwood-Guest'
IP='dhcp'
# Uncomment this if your ssid is hidden
#HIDDEN=yes
That is my netcfg profile that connects me to my campus guest network. Pretty much a copy of the wireless-open profile. The only problem I get is that the wifi sucks around here so sometimes it wont work. I remember for a long time I thought there was a problem on my end until I randomly tried it in a different building and it worked.
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still nothing... the log file is telling me
wlan0: link is not ready
lspci -v
04:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9300 Wireless LAN adaptor (rev 01)
Subsystem: Bigfoot Networks, Inc. Killer Wireless-N 1102 Half-size Mini PCIe Card [AR9382]
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
Memory at f7b00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
Expansion ROM at f7b20000 [disabled] [size=64K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ath9k
Anyone please =]
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Could you post the output of
ip link
ifconfig
and of
rfkill list
??
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Thanks for looking at this =] I thought i had it working last night, but it takes multiple attempts to finally connect. I did establish a connection a couple of times. As in, 1 out of 20 tries.
ip link
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP qlen 1000
link/ether 00:90:f5:c3:3a:b4 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
3: wlan0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state DOWN qlen 1000
link/ether 74:de:2b:38:06:b6 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
ifconfig
eth0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 metric 1
inet 134.82.181.226 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 134.82.181.255
inet6 fe80::290:f5ff:fec3:3ab4 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link>
ether 00:90:f5:c3:3a:b4 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 255102 bytes 338780722 (323.0 MiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 149188 bytes 11819631 (11.2 MiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
device interrupt 55
lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING> mtu 16436 metric 1
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 scopeid 0x10<host>
loop txqueuelen 0 (Local Loopback)
RX packets 50956 bytes 5824269 (5.5 MiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 50956 bytes 5824269 (5.5 MiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
wlan0: flags=4099<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 metric 1
ether 74:de:2b:38:06:b6 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 61160 bytes 41146805 (39.2 MiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 18952 bytes 1925131 (1.8 MiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
rfkill list
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
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...
ifconfig
...
I meant iwconfig
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Thought that was weird...
wlan0 IEEE 802.11abgn ESSID:"bucknell_guests"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Tx-Power=18 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Log file says the following when using netcfg to connect to an OPEN network (no authentication required)
Apr 19 15:47:39 localhost kernel: [ 2680.245926] wlan0: direct probe to 00:1a:1e:11:96:80 (try 3/3)
Apr 19 15:47:40 localhost kernel: [ 2680.445691] wlan0: direct probe to 00:1a:1e:11:96:80 timed out
Apr 19 15:47:51 localhost kernel: [ 2691.385993] wlan0: deauthenticating from d8:c7:c8:a1:cb:40 by local choice (reason=3)
Apr 19 15:47:53 localhost kernel: [ 2693.424141] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
Apr 19 15:47:58 localhost kernel: [ 2699.077784] wlan0: authenticate with 00:1a:1e:11:96:83 (try 1)
Apr 19 15:47:58 localhost kernel: [ 2699.100339] wlan0: 00:1a:1e:11:96:83 denied authentication (status 17)
Apr 19 15:49:00 localhost kernel: [ 2761.254159] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
Apr 19 15:49:03 localhost kernel: [ 2763.276701] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
Apr 19 15:49:08 localhost kernel: [ 2769.023664] wlan0: authenticate with 00:1a:1e:11:96:83 (try 1)
Apr 19 15:49:08 localhost kernel: [ 2769.034979] wlan0: 00:1a:1e:11:96:83 denied authentication (status 17)
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