Wireless Issues on EEEPC

[arhenius]

Dear All

I have been running gentoo on my eeepc 1000HE since -I brought it. Recently, I had to re-install gentoo on it, but now I can not put wicd to work properly. I can manage my wired connection from wicd without any trouble, but my wireless connection goes of right after authentication, with some dbus/python error messages. Also, if I turn my wireless card off and on again: it gets renamed from wlp1s0 to wlan0 (this may be an unrelated issue with udev).

This is what I have done so far. My wired interface is enp3s0 and my wireless card is wlp1s0.

• My wired interface works fin either ising the init scrip or wicd
  
  
• As root, my wireless interface works without problems using wpa_supplicant:
  

  Code:

  # wpa_supplicant -Dwext -iwlp1s0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf Trying to associate with 00:13:f7:99:4e:87 (SSID='Phi' freq=2462 MHz) ioctl[SIOCSIWFREQ]: Device or resource busy Association request to the driver failed Associated with 00:13:f7:99:4e:87 WPA: Key negotiation completed with 00:13:f7:99:4e:87 [PTK=CCMP GTK=CCMP] CTRL-EVENT-CONNECTED - Connection to 00:13:f7:99:4e:87 completed (auth) [id=0 id_str=]

  
  
  And this is the content of /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf:
  
  

  Quote:

  network={ ssid="Phi" scan_ssid=1 proto=RSN pairwise=CCMP TKIP key_mgmt=WPA-PSK psk="MyCorrectPasswordIsHere" }

  
  
  
• I created an encription template for wicd, based on my wpa_supplicant.conf, and activated it:
  

  Quote:

  name = WPA2-AES author = Filipe version = 1 require apsk *Preshared_Key protected apsk *Preshared_Key ----- ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant network={ ssid="$_ESSID" scan_ssid=$_SCAN proto=RSN key_mgmt=WPA-PSK pairwise=CCMP TKIP psk="$_APSK" }

  
  
  
• After starting wicd, I launched wicd-gtk as my normal user from the command line. The connection was configured to run with the WPA2-AES script and my password. The connection fails after Authentication, and this apears in the command line:
  

  Code:

  ERROR:dbus.connection:Exception in handler for D-Bus signal: Traceback (most recent call last):   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dbus/connection.py", line 230, in maybe_handle_message     self._handler(*args, **kwargs)   File "/usr/share/wicd/gtk/gui.py", line 253, in handle_connection_results     error(self.window, language[results], block=False) KeyError: dbus.String(u'failed')

  
  
  This is my wicd log:
  

  Code:

  2013/07/30 12:49:15 :: wicd initializing... 2013/07/30 12:49:15 :: --------------------------- 2013/07/30 12:49:15 :: wicd is version 1.7.2.4 768 2013/07/30 12:49:15 :: setting backend to external 2013/07/30 12:49:15 :: trying to load backend external 2013/07/30 12:49:15 :: successfully loaded backend external 2013/07/30 12:49:15 :: trying to load backend external 2013/07/30 12:49:15 :: successfully loaded backend external 2013/07/30 12:49:15 :: Automatically detected wireless interface wlp1s0 2013/07/30 12:49:15 :: setting wireless interface wlan0 2013/07/30 12:49:15 :: automatically detected wired interface enp3s0 2013/07/30 12:49:15 :: setting wired interface enp3s0 2013/07/30 12:49:15 :: setting wpa driver ralink_legacy 2013/07/30 12:49:15 :: setting use global dns to False 2013/07/30 12:49:15 :: setting global dns 2013/07/30 12:49:15 :: global dns servers are None None None 2013/07/30 12:49:15 :: domain is None 2013/07/30 12:49:15 :: search domain is None 2013/07/30 12:49:15 :: setting automatically reconnect when connection drops True 2013/07/30 12:49:15 :: Setting dhcp client to 2 2013/07/30 12:49:15 :: Wireless configuration file found... 2013/07/30 12:49:15 :: Wired configuration file found... 2013/07/30 12:49:15 :: chmoding configuration files 0600... 2013/07/30 12:49:15 :: chowning configuration files root:root... 2013/07/30 12:49:15 :: Using wireless interface...wlp1s0 2013/07/30 12:49:15 :: Using wired interface...enp3s0 (Autoconnect tries...) 2013/07/30 12:49:35 :: Unable to autoconnect, you'll have to manually connect 2013/07/30 12:50:05 :: trying to load backend external 2013/07/30 12:50:05 :: trying to load backend ioctl 2013/07/30 12:50:05 :: WARNING: python-iwscan not found, falling back to using iwlist scan. 2013/07/30 12:50:05 :: WARNING: python-wpactrl not found, falling back to using wpa_cli. 2013/07/30 12:50:20 :: setting use global dns to 0 2013/07/30 12:50:20 :: setting global dns 2013/07/30 12:50:20 :: global dns servers are    2013/07/30 12:50:20 :: domain is 2013/07/30 12:50:20 :: search domain is 2013/07/30 12:50:20 :: setting wireless interface wlp1s0 2013/07/30 12:50:20 :: setting wired interface enp3s0 2013/07/30 12:50:20 :: setting wpa driver ralink_legacy 2013/07/30 12:50:20 :: setting automatically reconnect when connection drops 1 2013/07/30 12:50:20 :: setting backend to external 2013/07/30 12:50:20 :: Setting dhcp client to 2 2013/07/30 12:50:57 :: Connecting to wireless network Phi 2013/07/30 12:50:57 :: Putting interface down 2013/07/30 12:50:57 :: Releasing DHCP leases... 2013/07/30 12:50:57 :: Setting false IP... 2013/07/30 12:50:57 :: Stopping wpa_supplicant 2013/07/30 12:50:57 :: Flushing the routing table... 2013/07/30 12:50:57 :: Putting interface up... 2013/07/30 12:50:59 :: Generating psk... 2013/07/30 12:50:59 :: Attempting to authenticate... 2013/07/30 12:50:59 :: Exception in thread Thread-4: 2013/07/30 12:50:59 :: Traceback (most recent call last): 2013/07/30 12:50:59 ::   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/threading.py", line 808, in __bootstrap_inner 2013/07/30 12:50:59 ::     self.run() 2013/07/30 12:50:59 ::   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/wicd/networking.py", line 342, in run 2013/07/30 12:50:59 ::     self._connect() 2013/07/30 12:50:59 ::   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/wicd/networking.py", line 920, in _connect 2013/07/30 12:50:59 ::     if not wiface.ValidateAuthentication(time.time()): 2013/07/30 12:50:59 ::   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/wicd/wnettools.py", line 1371, in ValidateAuthentication 2013/07/30 12:50:59 ::     result = misc.RunRegex(auth_pattern, output) 2013/07/30 12:50:59 ::   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/wicd/misc.py", line 204, in RunRegex 2013/07/30 12:50:59 ::     m = regex.search(string) 2013/07/30 12:50:59 :: RuntimeError: internal error in regular expression engine 2013/07/30 12:50:59 :: 2013/07/30 12:51:00 :: Sending connection attempt result failed

  
  
  
• Relevant Information on dmesg:
  

  Code:

  dmesg | grep -i wlp1s0 [    9.368333] systemd-udevd[1369]: renamed network interface wlan0 to wlp1s0 [   16.682413] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlp1s0: link is not ready [  234.858119] wlp1s0: authenticate with 00:13:f7:99:4e:87 [  234.863243] wlp1s0: send auth to 00:13:f7:99:4e:87 (try 1/3) [  234.864635] wlp1s0: authenticated [  234.865100] wlp1s0: associate with 00:13:f7:99:4e:87 (try 1/3) [  234.873040] wlp1s0: RX AssocResp from 00:13:f7:99:4e:87 (capab=0x471 status=0 aid=1) [  234.874058] wlp1s0: associated [  234.874086] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlp1s0: link becomes ready [  269.410899] wlp1s0: deauthenticating from 00:13:f7:99:4e:87 by local choice (reason=3) [  291.100521] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlp1s0: link is not ready [  292.221760] wlp1s0: authenticate with 00:13:f7:99:4e:87 [  292.225522] wlp1s0: send auth to 00:13:f7:99:4e:87 (try 1/3) [  292.226899] wlp1s0: authenticated [  292.227084] wlp1s0: associate with 00:13:f7:99:4e:87 (try 1/3) [  292.235033] wlp1s0: RX AssocResp from 00:13:f7:99:4e:87 (capab=0x471 status=0 aid=1) [  292.235613] wlp1s0: associated [  292.235636] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlp1s0: link becomes ready [  310.547736] wlp1s0: deauthenticating from 00:13:f7:99:4e:87 by local choice (reason=3) [ 1428.291402] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlp1s0: link is not ready [ 1459.896512] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlp1s0: link is not ready [ 1460.105321] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlp1s0: link is not ready [ 1462.780869] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlp1s0: link is not ready [ 1646.963870] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlp1s0: link is not ready [ 1647.158152] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlp1s0: link is not ready [ 1649.861668] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlp1s0: link is not ready

  
  
  

May this be a problem with python 2.7? A problem with DBUS? Or a problem with the unfortunate idea of changing the naming rules in udev (I can not recover my inteface as wlp1s0 after turning it down and up again, although wlan0 behave in the same way as wlp1s0)? I tried both the stable net-misc/wicd-1.7.2.4-r2 as well as the ~x86 version net-misc/wicd-1.7.2.4-r3 (which was the version used in these tests).

Thanks in advance for any help.
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Filipe

[Ant P.]

[arhenius]

Thanks for the feedback, Ant P.

I changed the driver to wext (and also tried nl80211 and ralink) and still can not connect. However, a different kind of error was observed: as you can see in the log, for wext there is no python/dbus error, but the connections terminates instantly.

Here is my wicd log: