Bug 718409 - NetworkManager fails to connect to wifi 3G hotspot
Summary: NetworkManager fails to connect to wifi 3G hotspot
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: NetworkManager
Version: 15
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Dan Williams
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-07-02 14:40 UTC by Jonathan
Modified: 2012-08-07 16:02 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2012-08-07 16:02:09 UTC
Type: ---


Attachments (Terms of Use)
messages at connection attempt (15.57 KB, text/plain)
2011-07-02 14:40 UTC, Jonathan
no flags Details
wpa_supplicant log (15.77 KB, text/x-log)
2011-07-08 17:27 UTC, Jonathan
no flags Details
wpa_supplicant log (28.44 KB, text/x-log)
2011-07-13 14:29 UTC, Jonathan
no flags Details

Description Jonathan 2011-07-02 14:40:22 UTC
Created attachment 510995 [details]
messages at connection attempt

Description of problem:
NetworkManager fails to connect to a HTC Legend wi-fi hopspot.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
NetworkManager.x86_64           1:0.8.9997-4.git20110620.fc15
kernel.x86_64                   2.6.38.8-32.fc15

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Setup HTC Legend as wi-fi hotspot (probably the same results with other HTC phones running andoid 2.2 Froyo)
2.Try to connect with network manager that sees the network.
3.Connection is initiated but doesn't complete.
  
Actual results:
Failed connection.

Expected results:
Working connection.

Additional info:
The laptop has no problems connecting to any other wifi than the HTC hotspot. A test with a Vista laptop to connect to the same hotspot was successful.

Comment 1 Jirka Klimes 2011-07-08 07:57:27 UTC
We need wpa_supplicant logs (/var/log/wpa_supplicant.log).

To increase log verbosity, please run commnads in section "Debugging wpa_supplicant 0.7 and later" at http://live.gnome.org/NetworkManager/Debugging

Comment 2 Jonathan 2011-07-08 17:27:21 UTC
Created attachment 511969 [details]
wpa_supplicant log

Comment 3 Jirka Klimes 2011-07-11 07:16:19 UTC
This looks like a driver problem. What WiFi device and driver do you use?
You can find devices using 'lspci' or 'lsusb' and the driver is reported e.g. in nm-tool output.

You could try to connect to the hotspot with a USB WiFi dongle to see if the driver is indeed the failing part.

Do you see any errors in 'dmesg' output? (like  wlan0: direct probe to ef8bf5e8 timed out)

I've found a similar issue with Atheros in this thread:
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.ath9k.devel/5353

Comment 4 Jonathan 2011-07-13 10:18:20 UTC
Device: lspci
03:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)

Driver: nm-tool
- Device: wlan0 ----------------------------------------------------------------
  Type:              802.11 WiFi
  Driver:            ath9k
  State:             disconnected
  Default:           no
  HW Address:        1C:4B:D6:5B:5E:CB

  Capabilities:

  Wireless Properties
    WEP Encryption:  yes
    WPA Encryption:  yes
    WPA2 Encryption: yes

  Wireless Access Points

Comment 5 Jonathan 2011-07-13 10:21:26 UTC
After reading the Atheros thread you mentioned, I should comment that this problem I have does not matter on the encryption. I've tried wpa, wep and stepped back to unencrypted to see if any of it worked and none did.

Comment 6 Jonathan 2011-07-13 14:28:39 UTC
I tested with a usb-wireless and got another failure to connect to the wifi. Attaching wpa_supplicant log from this attempt.

Comment 7 Jonathan 2011-07-13 14:29:45 UTC
Created attachment 512675 [details]
wpa_supplicant log

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