Re: Help: F30/31 laptops only ones not able to connect to Wifi Linkhub hotspot

["Ranjan Maitra" <maitra@xxxxxxxxx>]

 

Hi,

 

Thanks again for your suggestions! See inline for my answers.

 

Sent: Friday, January 03, 2020 at 10:43 AM
From: "George N. White III" <gnwiii@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Community support for Fedora users" <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Help: F30/31 laptops only ones not able to connect to Wifi Linkhub hotspot

On Fri, 3 Jan 2020 at 01:55, Ranjan Maitra <maitra@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi,

 

I have been lost for the past day and I need some help.

 

There are 7 android devices and a linux mint laptop that effortlessly connect to a linkhub (Alcatel HH41NH). There is no limit to the number of devices that the linkhub can connect to.

 

Is the MAC filter enabled on your linkhub?    Are the Fedora systems using MAC address randomization?  Does the linkhub have a hidden SSID?

 

The MAC filter is not enabled on the linkhub.

 

The Fedora system is using MAC address randomization, but we also tried it without.

 

The linkhub does not have a hidden SSID.

 

 

However, two Fedora laptops each running F30 and F31 are not able to connect. Both laptops are updated to the latest as of Tuesday December 31, 2019.

 

We have tried all sorts of things but can not connect. dmesg seems to indicate that a connection is established but the log messages seem to indicate otherwise.

 

Does anyone have any suggestions? We are a little lost. I am including the relevant dmesg, log messages and journatctl output. Happy to provide information as needed.

 

NetworkManager has become quite complex, and sometimes makes bad decisions.   You can sometimes force a connection using nmcli, which may provide an indication of the underlying cause of your problem.

 

We tried with nmcli, but get the same failure to associate and eventual timeout.

 

Look for similar reports in https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/issues

 

The linkhub is not mentioned.  The error message is not mentioned.

 

In the past, there used to be some hotspots which only talked to Windoze. However, all the other machines that connect are on android and the one laptop that is running Mint (that I am using to write this e-mail) with the 4.15.0 kernel. They appear to have the same configuration as per NetworkManager.

 

Thanks again for the help!

Ranjan

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