On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 10:11 PM, Joel Rees <joel.rees@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > First time to try to use wireless since installing F17. Connects, but > doesn't succeed at authorizing. Keeps trying to authorize for several > minutes, then gives up. > > /var/log/messages shows stuff like > > NetworkManager[483]: <info> (wlan0): device state change: disconnected > -> prepare (reason 'none') [30 40 0] > > tries again and says things like > > ... has security, but secrets are required > > ... has security, and secrets exist. No new secrets required. > > Various stuff added, > > ... Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) complete. > > ... Config: set interface ap_scan to 1 > > ... supplicant interface state: disconnected -> scanning > > scanning, authenticating, associating, handshake completed, beginning > IP6 addrconf, and > > avahi-daemon[514]: Withdrawing address record for (IPv6 address, I > think) on wlan0. > > IPv6 scheduled, started, completed, DHCPv4 request timed out. canceled > DHCP transaction, and > > ... wlan0: deauthenticating from (MAC address) by local choice (reason=3) > ... <info> (wlan0): device state change: ip-config -> failed > (reason 'ip-config-unavailable') [70 120 5] > > and so forth. > > I'm going to try to set up /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf by > hand when I have time tomorrow, but I'm curious as to why I would need > to do the set up by hand for F17 when F16 just did its thing and it > worked. Found a thread suggesting IPv6 as one possible cause of this sort of behavior, so I disabled it (/etc/sysctl.conf, I think) and got rid of the IPv6 messages in the log. That made it clear that DHCP was timing out, so I just set a static address, and the problem is solved for me. (I prefer not to use DHCP, anyway.) -- Joel Rees -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
