NetworkManager after resuming from a suspend fails to reconnect to previously connected wireless network. Instead, repeatedly requests the network's password. Even when entered correctly multiple times, it persists in this behaviour. After a period of failed network-password entries, despite being correct, NetworkManager appears to disable the wlan0 device in system-config-network. It is reproducible all the time. Hardware: Thinkpad T41p. Atheros chipset. Software: Madwifi driver 0.9.4 from livna. Latest updates as of (27/06/08) including latest kernel '2.6.25.6-55.fc9.i686'. Wireless network: WPA2-PSK AES encryption. Reproducible all the time. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Connect to wireless network (or automatically done at startup) 2. Suspend. 3. Log back in. Expected results: After resuming and logging in, NetworkManager should reconnect quickly to the previously connected wireless network, as nothing has changed, not the network, the password - nothing. I am more than happy to provide any further information, but am rather new to Linux and Fedora. Overall a much better experience with Fedora than in Core 5 and 6 though, including NetworkManager working for me apart from this issue. Thanks.
I tested this on a WEP-128bit encrypted network and had the same bad luck, it did not resume after a suspend. This time, it didn't even ask for the network secret. However, the WEP encrypted network's secret I entered in hex and not ascii which I used on my WPA2-PSK network which leads me to believe this might be a factor. Someone else on fedoraforum.org had a similar problem and suggested I add a file titled 'suspend_modules' in /etc/pm/config.d - this didn't remedy anything at first throwing up an SELINUX troubleshoot message which I will attach. This might be a problem as well, because it was after a combination of these things that the network resumes properly. My steps to remedy it so far are summarised below: 1. Use a hex key instead of an ascii key. 2. Add a file titled suspend_modules in /etc/pm/config.d containing the line: SUSPEND_MODULES='ath_pci'. 3. Put SELINUX into permissive mode to get around the setroubleshooter message. I will try and whittle down which of these changes made it work.
Created attachment 310796 [details] selinux troubleshoot message output after making the /etc/pm/config.d file suspend_modules
I just tested on my WPA2-PSK network which I use a passphrase with, as opposed to the hex key I used on the WEP network. The WPA2-PSK network is the one where NM repeatedly asked for my network secret, despite it being correct. It worked fine after the changes documented in previous comments. This rules out my hex vs. ascii argument for explaining why NM repeatedly requested the network secret, but never connected. So the workaround for this bug is as follows, and should be somehow incorporated into the next release if possible. If someone could explain why this works, someone who knows more, that'd be very helpful also. 1. Set SELINUX into permissive mode, to workaround the warning that it will generate (the setroubleshooter output is attached to this bug, creating an exception by default in selinux would be good, so we can keep enforcing mode). 2. Create a file in '/etc/pm/config.d' called 'suspend_modules'. 3. Add the following line to the file: SUSPEND_MODULES='ath_pci' -- Notice how this bug is specific to madwifi, I do not have any evidence or facilities to test if this bug occurs on other wireless chipsets. Another user johannlo with a T42 with an atheros chipset but using ath5k also encountered this: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=1040305#post1040305
setroubleshoot recommends that I should run "restorecon -v './suspend_modules'" - inside the speech marks. You need to navigate to /etc/pm/config.d/ before running it. I also tested the fix by removing the suspend_modules file from /etc/pm/config.d/ and suspending in both permissive and enforcing selinux modes. Without this file, wlan0 just wouldn't come back up. I notice now in setroubleshoot that there are two logs, the other log suggests that the user does the following - "restorecon -v '/etc/pm/config.d/suspend_modules'" . I'll attach the log for this second problem too. Collectively, the reports sources' refer to both pm-powersave and pm-suspend.
Created attachment 311082 [details] 2nd setroubleshoot output, pm-suspend
Strangely, the fix does not appear to work if the laptop has been suspended for a long period of time. One can workaround this by suspending and resuming it again. Then, after a short period of time networkmanager will resume the connection also. So still not fixed 100% - would appreciate comments from developers. I'm more than willing to try out possible fixes.
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I have marked my Bug 456039 as a duplicate of this. Smolt profile for the machine in question: http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_4e28d6bb-5fee-4152-a260-f08ff80399e5 rmmod ath_pci && modprobe ath_pci after waking up the machine also works for me, however doing so with either of the following methods causes the machine to not wake up properly (power light stops blinking, wifi light comes on, no hdd activity, no display) * using /etc/pm/config.d/suspend_modules * using /etc/pm/sleep.d/ath_pci.sh with the a script to rmmod,modprobe So the best possible fix so far makes the fix useless. I have to hard restart when the machine fails to wakeup. SELinux is disabled. This is on a compaq presario, so I would appreciate if the summary was made more generic as this is not limited to Thinkpads
I am now experiencing the wlan0 interface not coming back up sometimes. I can immediately tell if this is the case upon resume as I have the netspeed_applet in my gnome-panel and instead of giving me current upstream/downstream bitrates it shows a red stop sign icon, as if there is no wireless interface active. The workaround for this is to just suspend and resume again, it fixes it every time. Although I am not sure what causes the fix to not work at times. The only pattern I can see is that it often occurs when the machine has been in suspend for a long time. On a separate note, I've changed the summary to make it not Thinkpad specific.
Any updates on this? The user for whom I setup wifi still cannot use Fedora 10 regularly.
Sorry was that directed at me? Did you say Fedora 10? I don't know what causes this or why the workaround works (or not as the case is sometimes). It certainly makes it usable but it's not an ideal situation for a new user. Can anyone with more experience explain why the workaround works and what we'd need to do to get this solved in future releases? What problems are you having Arthur?
(In reply to comment #11) > Sorry was that directed at me? To whom ever has useful information on this. > Did you say Fedora 10? Yes, please see comment 8 for snotr profile of the machine in question. > I don't know what causes > this or why the workaround works (or not as the case is sometimes). It > certainly makes it usable but it's not an ideal situation for a new user. In this case, the work around is worse than the problem. > Can anyone with more experience explain why the workaround works and what we'd > need to do to get this solved in future releases? At this point I am unsure if it is a kernel module issue or a NetworkManager issue -- instructions on how to determine which is as fault would be helpful. > What problems are you having Arthur? In my case, reloading the module after resume works, however, all attempts to use automated module reloading causes the machine to freeze, requiring a hard reboot (and no logs are written).
Fedora 10 (rawhide) is pretty rocky right now while some wireless stuff gets hashed out upstream in the kernel. For Fedora 9, we need a bit more investigation of what's happening at resume time. First, the device itself needs to be "up" to scan, and you need to scan to figure if the network you want to reconnect to is still there. NM should ensure that the device is up before firing off a scan, but I got a report yesterday that there's something odd here. If anyone running Fedora 9 could try the NetworkManager in F9-updates-testing that would be useful, as there were fixes made in the suspend/resume areas that could help this problem out. Next, we'd need logs from /var/log/messages to ensure that NM is doing the right thing on resume. If it is doing the right thing, then we need to make sure that the driver is doing the right thing too... One more test to do; after resume when NM has failed to reconnect to the AP, manually run (as root) "/sbin/iwlist wlan0" and see if you get any results.
Jonathan, can you try with latest kernel (2.6.26.5 or later), latest NM (svn4022.4 or later), and latest supplicant (0.6.4 or later)? Also, please try the 'ath5k' driver in the 2.6.26 kernels, madwifi isn't upstream and thus doesn't use the same interfaces as ath5k does, which uses the standard kernel 802.11 stack. If there are SELinux issues, please file a separate bug (since it's a different problem) and I'll get that fixed in the selinux policy.
Hi, I'm testing Fedora 10 on my eeePC 900A, my wifi card : 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01) On this kernel : Linux Laia 2.6.27.3-27.rc1.fc10.i686 #1 SMP Sat Oct 18 20:35:56 EDT 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux NetworkManager : 0.7.0 0.11.svn4175.fc10 Build Date: dim. 12 oct. 2008 17:25:13 CEST with the corresponding applet : Applet NetworkManager 0.7.0 But in a KDE 4.1.2 environnement (I didn't test yet with knetworkmanager). The problem is the same as described in the first comment, after a stop (suspend or resume), the wifi network which was previously working stopped and impossible to make it work again. After a suspend, I've got a kernel error : Kernel failure message 1: BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at include/linux/pagemap.h:294 in_atomic():0, irqs_disabled():1 Pid: 5521, comm: hwclock Not tainted 2.6.27.3-27.rc1.fc10.i686 #1 [<c0425e3b>] __might_sleep+0xc6/0xcb [<c046d949>] lock_page+0x15/0x2f [<c046db81>] find_lock_page+0x1e/0x3a [<c046e055>] filemap_fault+0x96/0x32b [<c04799bf>] __do_fault+0x3b/0x2c7 [<c04def65>] ? journal_dirty_metadata+0x32/0xd6 [<c047b254>] handle_mm_fault+0x2e0/0x6d1 [<c0440ef2>] ? sched_clock_cpu+0x12c/0x13b [<c051f6f6>] ? rb_insert_color+0x56/0xc0 [<c043f158>] ? enqueue_hrtimer+0xc1/0xcc [<c06c7b4e>] do_page_fault+0x2e0/0x68e [<c0420a09>] ? hrtick_start_fair+0x11c/0x153 [<c040271a>] ? __switch_to+0x114/0x139 [<c0428f4d>] ? finish_task_switch+0x2f/0xb0 [<c06c48ef>] ? schedule+0x6ee/0x70d [<c0405f33>] ? do_softirq+0xbe/0xdb [<c05200d8>] ? strspn+0x24/0x2e [<c0496a13>] ? path_put+0x15/0x18 [<c045f9c4>] ? audit_syscall_exit+0xb2/0xc7 [<c06c786e>] ? do_page_fault+0x0/0x68e [<c06c6142>] error_code+0x72/0x78 I tried stopping network daemon and network manager, removing the module and reloading it, then restating the daemons, it didn't work.
Switching to the 2.6.27 kernel in Rawhide mostly solved my issues. However, wake up was very slow. Either that, or pressing the (hardware) wifi button on the laptop triggered it to wake up. I wasn't able to play with it further as I wanted to return it to it's owner.
I have a similar problem. My wireless connection is not re-established after the machine is resumed from hibernation or suspension. I have a broadcom adapter and I use the kernel-supplied b43 driver. When I wake the computer up I have to do the following to reconnect to my wireless network: rmmod b43 modprobe b43 service NetworkManager restart and wait a few seconds before the connection is re-established. The funny thing is that sometimes I don't have to do this after resuming the machine from suspension. I run fedora 10 with the latest kernel (as of Feb., 16th), with all available updates installed. Any ideas? Can this be driver related?
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I'm sorry I'm unable to help diagnose this further as the machine I had the problem on is no longer in my posession.
I have a similar problem with a D-Link DWL-G630 atheros-based card. If I try to suspend my computer, I have a kernel panic. If I try to hibernate it, I have that I can't use the card because the Networkmanager says it's not ready.
I saw that removing the DWL-G630 (that is a PCMCIA card) my bug depends on 230675, that is going to be fixed and until that I don't know if I can help you. Anyway I haven't tried the patch above (comment #1), but I'm going to. I have a Presario 900 series. If mine is a different one, just tell me and I'm going to post a new report.
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