Bug 14280

Summary: The module ath9k for the Qualcomm Atheros AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) seems to not being able to connect sometimes
Product: Mageia Reporter: Kristoffer Grundström <lovaren>
Component: RPM PackagesAssignee: Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID QA Contact:
Severity: major    
Priority: Normal CC: doktor5000, lovaren
Version: 4   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: i586   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Source RPM: drakconnect CVE:
Status comment:
Attachments: Here's the information about the card.
Output from connecting with NetworkManager

Description Kristoffer Grundström 2014-10-14 16:27:46 CEST 
Description of problem: I'm using a ASUS EEE-PC called 1001PXD with Mageia 4 and I'm using 3.14.18-desktop-3.mga4 as kernel. The module loaded for the wireless adapter according to lsmod is ath9k. If you use a password with PSK2 encryption Mageia can't make the interface connecting sometimes. If you remove the password from the device (my phone in this case it CAN connect.

How reproducible: Now and then, but I have been able to reproduce this issue more than once.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Login to Cinnamon.
2. Connect to a connection with PSK2 encryptioned password.
3. Voila! It fails and the only way to connect to the same connection is to connect without a password.


Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:
Comment 1 Kristoffer Grundström 2014-10-14 16:30:24 CEST 
Created attachment 5504 [details]
Here's the information about the card.

CC: (none) => kristoffer.grundstrom1983

Comment 2 Manuel Hiebel 2014-10-20 20:36:19 CEST 
it works better with networkmanager ?
Comment 3 Kristoffer Grundström 2014-10-20 22:22:55 CEST 
I haven't tested that yet, but I'll do that tomorrow.

Any output you're looking for?

Should I run drakconnect via terminal with the debug flag?
Comment 4 Kristoffer Grundström 2014-10-26 19:24:01 CET 
Created attachment 5541 [details]
Output from connecting with NetworkManager
Comment 5 Florian Hubold 2014-10-28 22:25:45 CET 
(In reply to Kristoffer Grundström from comment #4)
> Created attachment 5541 [details]
> Output from connecting with NetworkManager

You're running drakroam ... how can that be the output of networkmanager?

Also, it says pretty clearly what the problem is:

Line 1205: too long ssid (len=44 max_len=32)
Line 1205: failed to parse ssid '"\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00"'.
Line 1207: failed to parse network block.
Failed to read or parse configuration '/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf'.

So check and fix your /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf or better, get a clean one. I've described how to do that here: https://forums.mageia.org/en/viewtopic.php?p=45861#p45861


FWIW, It's actually called WPA2-PSK - and I'm using that here, it works just fine.
Hence closing as invalid.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
CC: (none) => doktor5000
Resolution: (none) => INVALID