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gingernaut

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Registered: 2016-04-27

Posts: 2

wireless network no longer working: /proc/self/fd/11 error

Hello everyone.

I've thoroughly read through the wiki wireless networking page but haven't found a solution yet. Until recently I have used wifi-menu to connect to the internet. However after selecting a network and typing in the password, it now fails to connect. I have broadcom-wl installed which is the correct package for my network card and worked for weeks without issue.

I believed I've traced down the root of my problem but I haven't been able to find a solution to my problem. Here are some of the commands I've run and the relevant outputs.

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lspci -k

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06:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4352 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter (rev 03)
    Subsystem: Dell Device 0019
    Kernel driver in use: wl
    Kernel modules: bcma, wl

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ip link

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1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
2: enp0s20u6: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 9c:eb:e8:24:34:03 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
3: wlp6s0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
    link/ether c4:8e:8f:f5:04:79 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

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sudo wpa_supplicant -D nl80211,wext -i wlp6s0 -c <(wpa_passphrase "network" "password")

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Successfully initialized wpa_supplicant
Failed to open config file '/proc/self/fd/11', error: No such file or directory
Failed to read or parse configuration '/proc/self/fd/11'.

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ls -la /proc/self/fd

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total 0
dr-x------ 2 gingernaut gingernaut 0 May 27 20:55 .
dr-xr-xr-x 9 gingernaut gingernaut 0 May 27 20:55 ..
lrwx------ 1 gingernaut gingernaut 64 May 27 20:55 0 -> /dev/pts/3
lrwx------ 1 gingernaut gingernaut 64 May 27 20:55 1 -> /dev/pts/3
lrwx------ 1 gingernaut gingernaut 64 May 27 20:55 2 -> /dev/pts/3
lr-x------ 1 gingernaut gingernaut 64 May 27 20:55 3 -> /proc/7653/fd

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/proc/self/fd      ls -la

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total 0
dr-x------ 2 gingernaut gingernaut  0 May 27 20:44 .
dr-xr-xr-x 9 gingernaut gingernaut 0 May 27 20:44 ..
lrwx------ 1 gingernaut gingernaut 64 May 27 20:44 0 -> /dev/pts/3
lrwx------ 1 gingernaut gingernaut 64 May 27 20:44 1 -> /dev/pts/3
lrwx------ 1 gingernaut gingernaut 64 May 27 20:44 10 -> /dev/pts/3
lrwx------ 1 gingernaut gingernaut 64 May 27 20:44 2 -> /dev/pts/3

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It appears that I need '/proc/self/fd/11' but I don't have a file there. I'm not sure how to create or generate that file, or really even what the purpose of that directory is.
Would really appreciate any help in solving this, thanks.

jasonwryan

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Re: wireless network no longer working: /proc/self/fd/11 error

Read the note: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/WP … passphrase

Please use code tags when pasting to the boards:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … s_and_code

Moving to NC...

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gingernaut

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Registered: 2016-04-27

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Re: wireless network no longer working: /proc/self/fd/11 error

Sorry about the code tags, will do that from now on.

I see the note on the wpa_passphrase page. When I switch to root user and run the command, I get a 'successfully initiated wpa_supplicant'. However running 'iw dev wlp6s0 link' (still as root) shows 'not connected' and I don't have any connection.