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soloport

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Registered: 2005-03-01

Posts: 442

ASUS U56E-BBL5 wpa_supplicant Authentication

ASUS U56E-BBL5 laptop does everything well under Arch Linux except to connect via wireless:
1) Password and other setup has been verified to be correct via secondary WiFI (Netgear WG111v3 Wireless USB Adapter)
2) However, when built-in WiFI tries to connect it gets to "Validating authentication..." (iwcd-gui) and times out
3) The AP and all neighboring AP connections (in other parts of office building) show up in GUI -- i.e. it's able to communicate with an AP enough to get SSID and other info
4) Tried switching the host AP from WPA2 (AES) to WPA1/2 (AES and TKIP)

lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
aes_x86_64              7476  2 
aes_generic            26106  1 aes_x86_64
rtl8187                51542  0 
asus_nb_wmi             1537  0 
asus_wmi               13644  1 asus_nb_wmi
sparse_keymap           3088  1 asus_wmi
iwlagn                236691  0 
mac80211              215605  2 rtl8187,iwlagn
pci_hotplug            25672  1 asus_wmi
iTCO_wdt               12717  0 
iTCO_vendor_support     1929  1 iTCO_wdt
cfg80211              160516  3 rtl8187,iwlagn,mac80211
atl1c                  32528  0 
rfkill                 15402  2 asus_wmi,cfg80211
wmi                     8411  1 asus_wmi
[minimized to relevant mods]

lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family DRAM Controller (rev 09)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series Chipset Family MEI Controller #1 (rev 04)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #2 (rev 05)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 6 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 05)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev b5)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 2 (rev b5)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 4 (rev b5)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 6 (rev b5)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #1 (rev 05)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation HM65 Express Chipset Family LPC Controller (rev 05)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series Chipset Family 6 port SATA AHCI Controller (rev 05)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 6 Series Chipset Family SMBus Controller (rev 05)
02:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Wireless-N + WiMAX 6150 (rev 67)
03:00.0 USB Controller: Device 1b21:1042
04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Device 1083 (rev c0)

Tried NetworkManager in place of wicd (then returned to wicd).  Have rebuilt wpa_supplicant (ABS) to update it as much as possible (then removed and put stock, vanilla package back due to lack of improvement).  All packages are up to date (as up-to-date as one can get from a mirror) including kernel 3.0.  Am using x86_64 based repos.

Any suggestions?

pigiron

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From: USA

Registered: 2009-07-14

Posts: 150

Re: ASUS U56E-BBL5 wpa_supplicant Authentication

You might go into the Wicd GUI and turn on debug mode, then check the logs in /var/log/wicd/ to see if that provides any clue.

AbstractLogic

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Registered: 2011-08-02

Posts: 19

Re: ASUS U56E-BBL5 wpa_supplicant Authentication

I'm having the exact same issue,  here is a log from wicd  http://pastebin.com/AhZPsJeG