Fedora Users — Re: Latest kernel makes wireless connection to WPA2 router fail

On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 9:22 PM, Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Henrik Frisk writes:

Hi,

I'm running FC11 on a MacBook Pro. After the latest kernel updates (to 2.6.29.6-217.2.16.fc11.x86_64) I cannot connect to my wireless router anymore. If I boot up in the previous kernel it works fine. Any ideas on how I can fix this? The wireless interface on this laptop is a Broadcom Corporation BCM4322.

No problems on this laptop with BCM4311 and the latest kernel.

Generally, a blanket statement that something doesn't work offers very little usable information to work with. At the very least, you should gather some preliminary information yourself, such as:

Right, sorry about that.

1) the output of lsmod, to determine whether the b43 kernel module is loaded.'

It wasn't but it didn't change anything to add it. Here's the output of 'lsmod | grep b43'
b43                   127352 0
ssb                    39572 1 b43
mac80211              199632 1 b43
cfg80211               37088 2 b43,mac80211
input_polldev           3952 2 b43,applesmc

2) various bits of information from /var/log/messages. kernel messages from early in the boot process would report whether or not the kernel module was loaded, and if not why not. Or may be you have some error messages from NetworkManager, or wpa_supplicant, that point towards a clue.

Here's the output of 'cat messages | grep Network':

Aug 30 22:34:34 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Activation (eth1/wireless) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) successful. Connected to wireless network 'dinergy'.
Aug 30 22:34:34 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Activation (eth1) Stage 3 of 5 (IP Configure Start) scheduled.
Aug 30 22:34:34 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Activation (eth1) Stage 3 of 5 (IP Configure Start) started...
Aug 30 22:34:34 localhost NetworkManager: <info> (eth1): device state change: 5 -> 7 (reason 0)
Aug 30 22:34:34 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Activation (eth1) Beginning DHCP transaction.
Aug 30 22:34:34 localhost NetworkManager: <info> dhclient started with pid 9060
Aug 30 22:34:34 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Activation (eth1) Stage 3 of 5 (IP Configure Start) complete.
Aug 30 22:34:34 localhost NetworkManager: <info> DHCP: device eth1 state changed normal exit -> preinit
Aug 30 22:35:20 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Device 'eth1' DHCP transaction took too long (>45s), stopping it.
Aug 30 22:35:20 localhost NetworkManager: <info> eth1: canceled DHCP transaction, dhcp client pid 9060
Aug 30 22:35:20 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Activation (eth1) Stage 4 of 5 (IP Configure Timeout) scheduled...
Aug 30 22:35:20 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Activation (eth1) Stage 4 of 5 (IP Configure Timeout) started...
Aug 30 22:35:20 localhost NetworkManager: <info> (eth1): device state change: 7 -> 9 (reason 5)
Aug 30 22:35:20 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Activation (eth1) failed for access point (dinergy)
Aug 30 22:35:20 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Marking connection 'Auto dinergy' invalid.
Aug 30 22:35:20 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Activation (eth1) failed.
Aug 30 22:35:20 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Activation (eth1) Stage 4 of 5 (IP Configure Timeout) complete.
Aug 30 22:35:20 localhost NetworkManager: <info> (eth1): device state change: 9 -> 3 (reason 0)
Aug 30 22:35:20 localhost NetworkManager: <info> (eth1): deactivating device (reason: 0).

It finds the access point but fails at connecting..

thanks for any help,

/h

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