Description of problem: Mageia 3 beta either fails to connect to the wireless network, or when it connects it quickly disconnects. Mageia 2 has no problems at all in the same configuration. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 1.1-2.mga3 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Log into Gnome 2. Select wireless network from Network Manager 3. Enter WPA shared key in the dialog. Expected results: connection to wireless network Actual results: network status icon changes to 'connected' but the connection is quickly broken again. After some time, the network icon reverts to 'unconnected'. In the mean time, no network traffic is possible.
Created attachment 3418 [details] Output of lspcidrake -v
Created attachment 3419 [details] wpa_supplicant log output
I think it might be the same bug as #8450 - i saw the same reason=3 disconnecting in my own logs.
CC: (none) => sander.lepik
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wicd#Random_disconnecting - do you have power saving turned on? If yes then would it help if you disable it?
I've followed the instructions to turn power saving off, with no effect at all unfortunately.
Update: doing a modprobe -r ath9k followed by modprobe ath9k actually makes the problem go away, although the log messages about being disconnected and connected again keep appearing steadily in wpa_supplicant.log. However, the wireless connection doesn't seem to suffer much from it. Still, the wireless network should work from the start of course.
I don't know what I did to make things work in comment #6, but it wasn't unloading and reloading the ath9k module. At best, I get a connection that lasts a few seconds and then dies. (current cauldron)
Does kernel-3.8.0-0.rc7.1.mga3 do any difference ?
CC: (none) => tmb
(In reply to comment #8) > Does kernel-3.8.0-0.rc7.1.mga3 do any difference ? Unfortunately, I notice no change with this kernel update.
After googling around a bit I found this page which put me on the right track: http://azitech.wordpress.com/2010/02/22/deauthenticating-reason3/ It turns out that there are two instances of wpa_supplicant being launched: [reinout@x56v ~]$ ps aux|grep wpa root 1119 0.1 0.0 45868 1592 ? Ss 21:32 0:02 /usr/sbin/wpa_supplicant -B -i wlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -D wext root 2569 0.0 0.0 45884 3540 ? Ss 21:34 0:00 /usr/sbin/wpa_supplicant -u -f /var/log/wpa_supplicant.log -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -P /run/wpa_supplicant.pid After killing them and re-selecting my network from NetworkManager, a new wpa_supplicant instance is started and the connection is as stable as ever! Seems like a serious issue to me, but I have to wonder what's so special about my setup that I am the first to report this!
Summary: [ath9k] Failure to connect to wireless network => Failure to connect to wireless network, wpa_supplicant started twice
I think this was solved with the default MGA4 configuration that disables gnome-network-manager by default.
Status: NEW => RESOLVEDResolution: (none) => WORKSFORME