Unable to connect to wi-fi - error after selecting network

[joeyc]

I am using desktop-586 3.3.6-2mga2 and my hardware is Toshiba 550D netbook. My desktop is KDE.

I start the konsole and use drakconnect.

When I choose the network I want to connect to the following message gets thrown four times.

Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_cell_view_set_cell_data: assertion 'cell_view->priv->displayed_row !=NULL' failed at /usr/lib/libDrakX/interactive/gtk.pm line 520

When I attempt to complete the setup, I get this error

Failed to connect to wpa_supplicant - wpa_ctrl_open: Success
Failed to create host name resolver: Invalid host name
run-parts: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/hostname.d/avahi exited with return code 1
Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) :
invalid argument "s:".

Here is some output from debugging steps I was asked to perform the last time I was having wi-fi problems

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[root@localhost joey]# rpm -q wpa_supplicant
wpa_supplicant-0.7.3-6.mga2

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[root@localhost joey]# rpm -V wpa_supplicant
S.5...GT.  c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf


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[root@localhost joey]# grep -v ^# /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
network={
    psk=<removed>
    priority=1
    scan_ssid=0
    ssid="corea"
}

network={
    key_mgmt=NONE
    mode=0
    ssid="Atlassian"
    proto=RSN WPA
    group=CCMP TKIP
    eap=PEAP
    password=<removed>
    identity=<removed>
    pairwise=CCMP TKIP
    scan_ssid=1
}

I can connect via Ethernet no problems

[doktor5000]

The errors are mostly bogus. Can you try if the problem from your previous thread reoccurred?
viewtopic.php?p=28943#p28943 and the following post?

[joeyc]

Hi I tried the debugging steps from the previous post and this is what I got

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[root@localhost joey]# lspcidrake -v | grep -i net
ath9k           : Atheros Communications Inc.|AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) [NETWORK_OTHER] (vendor:168c device:002b subv:11ad subd:6613) (rev: 01)
r8169           : Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.|RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller [NETWORK_ETHERNET] (vendor:10ec device:8136 subv:1179 subd:fdc0) (rev: 05)


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[root@localhost joey]# dmesg | grep -iE 'wifi|wlan|firmware'
[17509.489397] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[17509.639167] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
...
<repeated 30 odd times>


The following steps seemed to execute without problems

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[root@localhost joey]# ifconfig wlan0 up
[root@localhost joey]# wpa_supplicant -B -Dwext -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -iwlan0
[root@localhost joey]# dhclient wlan0


And unlike the previous solution, wpa_supplicant exists. Not sure where to go from here. Any help would be gratefully accepted!

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[root@localhost joey]# ls -la /var/run/wpa_supplicant
total 8
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Dec 21 17:48 ./
drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 4096 Apr 26 09:12 ../


[doktor5000]

OK, please show the output of

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iwconfig

and

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iwlist wlan0 scan

(Remove any SSIDs if you don't want to post them here from the latter output)

[joeyc]

Hi Doktor

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[root@localhost joey]# iwconfig
wlan0     IEEE 802.11bgn  ESSID:off/any 
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.417 GHz  Access Point: Not-Associated   
          Tx-Power=16 dBm   
          Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:on
         
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

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[root@localhost joey]# iwlist wlan0 scan
wlan0     Scan completed :
          Cell 01 - Address: 64:D8:14:D1:28:80
                    Channel:6
                    Frequency:2.437 GHz (Channel 6)
                    Quality=42/70  Signal level=-68 dBm 
                    Encryption key:on
                    ESSID:<scrubbed>
                    Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
                              11 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
                    Bit Rates:24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
                    Mode:Master
                    Extra:tsf=0000110f743a776a
                    Extra: Last beacon: 5133ms ago
                    IE: Unknown: 000941746C61737369616E
                    IE: Unknown: 010882848B0C12961824
                    IE: Unknown: 030106
                    IE: Unknown: 0706415520010B1E
                    IE: Unknown: 0B050300DE8D5B
                    IE: Unknown: 2A0100
                    IE: Unknown: 2D1AAC191BFFFFFF0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
                    IE: IEEE 802.11i/WPA2 Version 1
                        Group Cipher : CCMP
                        Pairwise Ciphers (1) : CCMP
                        Authentication Suites (2) : 802.1x Proprietary
                    IE: Unknown: 32043048606C
                    IE: Unknown: 3D1606000700000000000000000000000000000000000000
                    IE: Unknown: 851E0E008F000F00FF03590077617035332D370000000000000000000300003C
                    IE: Unknown: 9606004096000000
                    IE: Unknown: DD180050F2020101800003A4000027A4000042435E0062322F00
                    IE: Unknown: DD06004096010104
                    IE: Unknown: DD050040960305
                    IE: Unknown: DD050040960B09
                    IE: Unknown: DD050040961401


[joeyc]

Could I get a hand with this?

[joeyc]

ping

[doktor5000]

As there are quite some users who have problems with wireless, i'll try to rework something like http://wiki.bodhilinux.com/doku.php?id=wireless_script so that we have some basis.

FWIW, if you delete the connection in network center and re-add it, does it work?