Bug 4635

Summary:	Wifi connects/disconnects (similar to Bug #4206
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Wolfgang Bornath <molch.b>
Component:	Installer	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED OLD	QA Contact:
Severity:	major
Priority:	Normal	CC:	mageia, marja11, molch.b, olav
Version:	Cauldron	Keywords:	NEEDINFO
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:		CVE:
Status comment:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	5015
Attachments:	/var/log/messages excerpt showing connecting/disconnecting

Description Wolfgang Bornath 2012-02-22 13:52:52 CET

Description of problem:
After a new installation of Mageia 2 Beta 1 wifi came up fine but a few seconds it disconnected and a message box opens asking for the password. When given, the wifi connects for a few seconds but disconnects again.

Chip is Atheros AR9286, using ath9k.

Looking at /var/log/messages I see messages like:

dbus-daemon[651]CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED
no network configuration found for the current AP

The file ifcfg-wlan0 is present and it contains correct information. 
wpa-supplicant is installed and the config contains correct information.

I may add that in an uptodate Cauldron installation on the same machine wifi is working without any problems.

It may be caused by the same unresolved issue in Bug #4206 but shows different output.

Comment 1 Manuel Hiebel 2012-02-27 17:43:22 CET

Are you using network-manager ?

Comment 2 Wolfgang Bornath 2012-02-27 18:19:54 CET

If the system obeyed my orders: no. Now I removed all network connections and set up a new (wlan0) for wifi and activated the "handled by networkmanager" option.

Did not change anything. Will add a log as attachment

CC: (none) => molch.b

Comment 3 Wolfgang Bornath 2012-02-27 18:46:31 CET

Created attachment 1649 [details]
/var/log/messages excerpt showing connecting/disconnecting

This log excerpt was taken after re-configuring and adding the networkmanager option

Comment 4 Olav Vitters 2012-02-27 19:30:44 CET

Feb 27 18:19:36 marvin-2 polkitd[723]: Error performing authentication: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error.Cancelled: Legitimierungsdialog wurde vom Nutzer geschlossen (polkit-error-quark 1)

According to Google translate, this says that you cancelled the password popup. Is that true?

CC: (none) => olav

Comment 5 Wolfgang Bornath 2012-02-27 19:44:27 CET

Yes, I did on that one occasion because it kept popping up all the time. At this time everything was already over. 
You see in the first part that the authentification is given and connection made but disconnected after a few seconds.

I just tried again:
1. I followed authentification pop-ups, giving root password and AP password.
 - wifi connects.
2. In the bottom right corner the wifi symbol is up. Holding my mouse on it it tells the correct data.
3. Next event is: the wifi symbol changes to a "Not connected" and the popup tells me that I did not configure a network connection yet and points me to drakconnect in the MCC. :)

Marja Van Waes 2012-03-18 20:08:38 CET

Blocks: (none) => 5015

Comment 6 Sander Lepik 2012-03-26 10:15:42 CEST

There is now new initscripts package as mentioned in #4206. Can you test with this one?

Also see this bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=794710 - what is rfkill list showing to you?

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO
CC: (none) => sander.lepik

Comment 7 Wolfgang Bornath 2012-03-26 11:33:00 CEST

I did a new install on that machine and switched to KDE (personal preferences), so I can not say anything about Gnome shell.

Comment 8 Sander Lepik 2012-03-26 11:46:13 CEST

But is the bug fixed for you or not? Should we close this as old?

Comment 9 Marja Van Waes 2012-04-14 22:16:36 CEST

(In reply to comment #6)
> There is now new initscripts package as mentioned in #4206. Can you test with
> this one?
> 
> Also see this bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=794710 - what is
> rfkill list showing to you?

(In reply to comment #7)
> I did a new install on that machine and switched to KDE (personal preferences),
> so I can not say anything about Gnome shell.

(In reply to comment #8)
> But is the bug fixed for you or not? Should we close this as old?

Over two weeks later now.

I understand wobo has no problems in KDE, but thinks he might still have the same problem if had installed Gnome.

Closing as OLD

Please reopen if the issue is still there

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
CC: (none) => marja11
Resolution: (none) => OLD