Bug 496505

Summary: ath9k can not connect to hidden networks
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Fabian Deutsch <fabian.deutsch>
Component: kernelAssignee: John W. Linville <linville>
Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: rawhideCC: itamar, kernel-maint, kevin.trautwein, madlynxed, mcgrof, quintela
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Description Fabian Deutsch 2009-04-19 18:51:12 UTC 
Description of problem:
When trying to connect my MacBook 2.1 to a hidden wireless wpa2 secured linksys wpa54g network this will not work.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Latest rawhide kernel 2.6.29-68.fc11.i586

How reproducible:
Everytime

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Setup your WPA54G using WPA2 with hidden BSSID
2. Use a rawhide kernel
3. Use NM to setup the network
  
Actual results:
Connection can not be established

Expected results:
Secure connection to the AP

Additional info:
This problem did not occur on the previous kernel.
The connection can be established when using the same encryption but no hidden bssid.
Comment 1 Fabian Deutsch 2009-04-19 18:59:03 UTC 
Created attachment 340251 [details]
lspci -v
Comment 2 John W. Linville 2009-04-27 15:23:53 UTC 
Do you happen to have access to any other hardware that uses mac80211-based drivers?  If so, could you try using those to access the hidden SSID network?

Could you try a wireless-testing kernel (with ath9k) as well?

   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-testing.git

Does that work any better than the rawhide kernel?
Comment 3 Fabian Deutsch 2009-05-02 13:04:04 UTC 
Currently I can not test it with a different hardware. I'll try to get the test with the different kernel done ...
Comment 4 Serge V Shistarev 2009-05-02 13:33:45 UTC 
I'm experiencing same kind of problem on Ubuntu 9.04 2.6.28-11-generic
Network controller (lspci -v): Atheros Communications Inc. AR928X Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01) Subsystem: Device 1a3b:1067, module = ath9k

On Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid (2.6.24-21-generic) it worked fine on same AP (with same settings)
Comment 5 kevin.trautwein 2009-05-17 00:14:30 UTC 
I have similar issues with my laptop using the ath9k wireless card with Fedora 10. It would connect sporadically and fail to connect quite often after a cold boot. Restarting NetworkManager didn't help most of the time.

In a RedHat class last week we removed the ath9k module with the modprobe -r ath9k command and reloaded it afterwards with modprobe ath9k and then it would connect just fine.

Thought I would add to this report in case this info helps at all.
Comment 6 Luis R. Rodriguez 2009-06-01 18:37:00 UTC 
Please report back on how it went with wireless-testing or compat-wireless:

http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Download
Comment 7 kevin.trautwein 2009-06-01 18:42:47 UTC 
Hello again,

My problem was resolved after moving to Fedora 11 pre-release.
Comment 8 Luis R. Rodriguez 2009-06-01 18:47:19 UTC 
Thanks, please close the bug report.