[SOLVED] Wireless automatically disconnects after connection...

thoss · 2017-05-30 05:19:20

I was tweaking my routing settings using

ip route

while troubleshooting my openvpn setup and somehow broke my WiFi configuration.

All netctl commands give the following error:

Failed to connect to non-global ctrl_ifname: wlp3s0  error: No such file or directory
Profile 'profile name' does not exist or is not available

Network Manager also fails.

I tried running wpa_supplicant but it does not seem to be working either.

The following occurs when connecting:

[ 4894.251226] wlp3s0: authenticate with 00:25:9c:d8:d7:91                
[ 4894.254573] wlp3s0: send auth to 00:25:9c:d8:d7:91 (try 1/3)           
[ 4894.257485] wlp3s0: authenticated 
[ 4894.257970] wlp3s0: associate with 00:25:9c:d8:d7:91 (try 1/3)         
[ 4894.361435] wlp3s0: associate with 00:25:9c:d8:d7:91 (try 2/3)         
[ 4894.366611] wlp3s0: RX AssocResp from 00:25:9c:d8:d7:91 (capab=0x411 status=0 aid=1)                                                              
[ 4894.369127] wlp3s0: associated    
[ 4894.369264] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlp3s0: link becomes ready  
[ 4895.997374] wlp3s0: deauthenticating from 00:25:9c:d8:d7:91 by local choice (Reason: 3=DEAUTH_LEAVING)                                            
[ 4896.002923] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Failed to find station               
[ 4896.002943] wlp3s0: failed to remove key (2, ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff) from hardware (-22)

This occurs across multiple networks.

SOLVED:

The issue seems to have been bad systemd calls in /etc/netctl/hooks which caused the underlying netctl-auto service to auto-disconnect. I'm now able to connect over wifi.

Last edited by thoss (2017-06-04 21:57:20)

Head_on_a_Stick · 2017-05-30 21:01:43

thoss wrote:

I tried running wpa_supplicant but it does not seem to be working either.

^ This is useless, please provide (much) more information — we need to know the *exact* command(s) used and the full content of any error messages returned.

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57855

The output of this command would probably also be useful:

systemctl list-unit-files --state=enabled

thoss · 2017-05-30 23:09:36

Sure.

I'm not running NetworkManager, wicd, connman, dhcpcd, or anything else. I use netctl, netctl-auto, and ifplugd.

% systemctl list-unit-files --state=enabled                                                                                         :(
UNIT FILE                          STATE                                                                                                            
acpid.service                      enabled
autovt@.service                    enabled
avahi-daemon.service               enabled
bluetooth.service                  enabled
cronie.service                     enabled
cups-browsed.service               enabled
dbus-org.bluez.service             enabled
dbus-org.freedesktop.Avahi.service enabled
getty@.service                     enabled
haveged.service                    enabled
icecast.service                    enabled
lm_sensors.service                 enabled
mcelog.service                     enabled
netctl-auto@.service               enabled
netctl-ifplugd@.service            enabled
netctl.service                     enabled
netctl@ethernet\x2ddhcp.service    enabled
ntpd.service                       enabled
openvpn-client@.service            enabled
preload.service                    enabled
smartd.service                     enabled
sshd.service                       enabled
tor.service                        enabled
avahi-daemon.socket                enabled
remote-fs.target                   enabled
fstrim.timer                       enabled

26 unit files listed.

Running wpa_supplicant in foreground mode:

sudo wpa_supplicant -i wlp3s0 -p /run/wpa_supplicant -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa.conf                                                                 
[sudo] password for tom:             
Successfully initialized wpa_supplicant

And wpa_cli:

sudo wpa_cli                                                                                                                                        
wpa_cli v2.6                                                                                                                                        
Copyright (c) 2004-2016, Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> and contributors

This software may be distributed under the terms of the BSD license.
See README for more details.


Selected interface 'p2p-dev-wlp3s0'

Interactive mode

> scan                                                                                                                                              
OK                                                                                                                                                  
> scan
scan           scan_interval  scan_results   
> scan_results                                                                                                                                      
bssid / frequency / signal level / flags / ssid                                                                                                     
>

I have seen this now across more wireless networks. No wireless networks work.

Something has happened that seems to cause spontaneous, immediate deauth.

It occurred after issuing various ip route commands, including commands to replace the default, yesterday, regarding my other topic on openvpn. I also would have manually brought up and down the tun0 interface using ip link. Looking at my history I never issued an ip link set command to my wireless interface until the problem had already manifested.

Head_on_a_Stick · 2017-05-31 07:53:47

thoss wrote:

sudo wpa_supplicant -i wlp3s0 -p /run/wpa_supplicant -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa.conf                                                                 
[sudo] password for tom:             
Successfully initialized wpa_supplicant

Looks like that worked, did you check `iwconfig` to see if the interface had associated with the access point?

EDIT: sorry, the error messages already posted are from that command aren't they?

How did you create the configuration file?

What is your hardware?

lspci -knn | grep -iA2 net

Last edited by Head_on_a_Stick (2017-05-31 07:58:08)

thoss · 2017-06-01 19:51:27

% lspci -knn | grep -iA2 net                                                                                                        :( 
00:19.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation 82579LM Gigabit Network Connection [8086:1502] (rev 04)                                        
        Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:21ce]                              
        Kernel driver in use: e1000e 
--
03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Wireless 7260 [8086:08b1] (rev 73)
        Subsystem: Intel Corporation Dual Band Wireless-AC 7260 [8086:4070]
        Kernel driver in use: iwlwifi

,,, but it also fails in the same ways (instant deauth) on a usb adapter using an atheros chipset.

wpa_supplicant followed by wpa_cli doesn't turn up anything when I scan (scan_results is blank). I set it up according to the wiki instructions.

Last edited by thoss (2017-06-01 19:53:38)

thoss · 2017-06-04 21:53:51

Looks like the issue was that I had the old systemd unit file, openvpn@client.service, instead of the newer, openvpn-client@.service, being called by my /etc/netctl/hooks directory. Since there was no config in /etc/openvpn, having been moved to /etc/openvpn/client, the service would fail, and then netctl-auto would disconnect. I'm not entirely sure why the issue only manifested in the past week. Or why an issue also came up in NetworkManager (which I briefly switched over to for testing), or why wpa_supplicant doesn't seem to work, or why there still seems to be a problem with netctl-ifplugd...

Last edited by thoss (2017-06-04 21:55:22)

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[SOLVED] Wireless automatically disconnects after connection...

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