Bug 496505 - ath9k can not connect to hidden networks
Summary: ath9k can not connect to hidden networks
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: John W. Linville
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-04-19 18:51 UTC by Fabian Deutsch
Modified: 2009-06-01 18:53 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2009-06-01 18:53:45 UTC
Type: ---
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lspci -v (6.35 KB, text/plain)
2009-04-19 18:59 UTC, Fabian Deutsch
no flags Details

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.


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