Bug 436876

Summary:	Activation (ath0/wireless): association took too long, asking for new key
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Siim Käba <siim.kaba>
Component:	NetworkManager	Assignee:	Dan Williams <dcbw>
Status:	CLOSED CANTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	low
Version:	8	CC:	cesar.alvernaz, dcbw, wtogami
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Description Siim Käba 2008-03-10 20:58:41 UTC

Description of problem:
Cannot get connection to wifi networks with or without wpa. Networkmanagers
lists all networks. Then, I try to connect some of them. It asks for keyring
password. I insert it. It tries to connect, into /var/log/messages appears  
"Activation (ath0/wireless): association took too long, asking for new key"
New key window appears. I insert the wpa key. I tries to connect and again same
cycle begins.
I can get connection if I do "killall wpa_supplicant" in terminal and then
select wifi network from drop-down, but not always.
It happens with all our company standard setups - Macbook pro, latest fedora.
Cannot get connection with non-wpa networks either.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
up-to-date F8. 
NetworkManager-gnome-0.7.0-0.6.7.svn3235.fc8.x86_64
NetworkManager-0.7.0-0.6.7.svn3235.fc8.x86_64
NetworkManager-glib-0.7.0-0.6.7.svn3235.fc8.x86_64
madwifi-hal-kmdl-2.6.24.3-12.fc8-0.9.4-40_r3123.fc8.x86_64
madwifi-0.9.4-40_r3123.fc8.x86_64
madwifi-kmdl-2.6.24.3-12.fc8-0.9.4-40_r3123.fc8.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. see description of problem
  
Actual results:

Expected results:
I select wifi network and I get connection as fast as with mac of windows.

Additional info:
It started half year ago with some version update.
If you need some logs or debug info then ask.

Comment 1 Matthias Runge 2008-03-11 07:06:24 UTC

Did you try the shiny new ath5k driver?

Comment 2 Siim Käba 2008-03-11 13:15:40 UTC

It does not support this chipset (AR5418). Livna has also old version of this
driver.

Comment 3 Andrew Cathrow 2008-03-12 16:19:45 UTC

Open question as to if this is Madwifi's issue or Network manager.
I've seen this problem with madwifi where the mode is setup to either 802.11A or
Auto. I set the mode to B/G at startup and it eliminates this issue.

/sbin/iwpriv ath0 setmode 3 

Also make sure that ath5k is blacklisted in modprobe. Maybe the livna rpms do
this already?

Comment 4 Siim Käba 2008-03-13 17:51:20 UTC

ath5k is blacklisted.

"/sbin/iwpriv ath0 mode 3" did the job. Thanks.

Comment 5 Dan Williams 2008-10-20 14:56:49 UTC

Not too much that can be done with madwifi, it's not upstream and not included in Fedora.  ath9k in 2.6.27 supports the 5418 and uses the standard mac80211 stack.