12.3 - my wifi stopped working at the middle of a YOU update.

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Hi,

Oh, my… I was about to send this when it occurred to me to just
reboot the d*** router, and all worked again.

I’ll post it anyway so you have a laugh at me…

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I just installed 12.3 xfce in my laptop, my 7 GB test partition, on top
of what was 12.3 RC previously. Network failed initially, but this was
expected. After a reboot, I configured network manager and it worked
instantly. I use fixed address, not dhcp.

I started doing things. I configured NFS client, because I setup zypper
to save all it downloads on a shared directory on the desktop machine.
No problem there.

Then, at the middle of the update, wireless network stopped working. It
asked for the auth password, no use. I rebooted, no use. I then rebooted
to 11.4, wireless worked just fine there - so hardware is fine.

So I had to bit the bullet, connect a cable, and finish the update:
patches only. Don’t ask for my repo list, they are the default oss and
non-oss repos :wink:

Reboot. Try again wireless… no go. Neither ifup or NM works with wifi
now in this 12.3. I have tried both at the same room and about 20 meters
away.

Use eth0 cable instead. :frowning:

So now to get logs… oops. Ssh does not connect:


Received disconnect from 192.168.1.130: 2: Too many authentication
failures for cer

This needs changing “MaxAuthTries” to 12 in the server (known problem).
ssh is working. I pasted the logs here:

susepaste:
/var/log/NetworkManager

susepaste: /var/log/messages

Router log has no entries at all on this period.

Apparmour is active, but there are no blocking events. The two error
messages you may see were already reported (bugzilla) in RC2 and do no
damage (so says the assignee). I will try now NM with AA disabled, just
in case… no, same problem. It associates, but does not connect. I
guess the important message is this:


wlan0: deauthenticated from 00:03:c9:e7:35:94 (Reason: 15)

Reason 15 is “4-Way Handshake timeout”, with the footnote that it was
added by 802.11i standard.

here

I saw that error once on 20-Jul-2010, when testing another site router,
that’s why I know what reason 15 is. I asked on a thread here.

The only packages that installed via network before it failed were these
(from the history file):


> 2013-04-01 23:20:55|install|AdobeICCProfiles|2.0-148.1.1|noarch||repo-non-oss|2f0834da15878009b76444a7b7f62feac63528f08e8bac2126f2fce8c9d1a922|
> 2013-04-01 23:20:56|install|unrar|4.2.4-2.1.1|x86_64||repo-non-oss|e1e3105cf55782d05e35f3b4e092e3fb32ba7ae5be933bdad14d5fb9f009588b|
> 2013-04-01 23:20:56|install|xf86-video-geode|2.11.14-2.1.1|i586||repo-oss|86757e0df9efb427a6711738db2ddaa6f69e3453db99d4154c0317af6b306a79|
> 2013-04-01 23:20:57|install|bundle-lang-gnome-extras-en|12.3-3.4.1|noarch||repo-oss|29eb3500efb66c540420544ab2a7b26aa0168780015c9994a5816698f0182c03|
> 2013-04-01 23:20:58|install|poppler-data|0.4.6-2.1.1|noarch||repo-oss|6198aa8049e0904ce31a9aefbc9fc9d353e39ca973f60e79e177a176757f65a4|
> 2013-04-01 23:21:08|install|gkrellm|2.3.5-14.1.2|x86_64|root@Minas-Anor.valinor|repo-oss|064fc4667ea3656b543df3e370f2ef19916d41c65693dc5e5685cb7230afd814|

They are not related to networking, AFAIK.

The next updates were at “2013-04-02 00:42:10” and those came via eth0,
and several reboots.

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I rebooted again to 11.4, and I noticed I could not ping the router. I
tried connecting from my only other wifi device, an ebook, fail too. So
I rebooted the router… and it worked.

It was warm to the touch. I have connected the external fan I put when
it is warm in here… it has been warm today here, up to 24°C

Oh my… almost 3 hours. I’m ashamed. :frowning:

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 x86_64 “Asparagus” at Telcontar)

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I rebooted again to 11.4, and I noticed I could not ping the router. I
tried connecting from my only other wifi device, an ebook, fail too. So
I rebooted the router… and it worked.

I’ve been browsing the forums and/or working with web interfaces when similar loss of connectivity has happened to me, (and it’s not always been immediately obvious to me of the cause when I could still browse cached pages etc). It’s a moment of relief when I finally realise to give the router a kick, and all is well again. :slight_smile:

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On 2013-04-02 02:56, deano ferrari wrote:
>
>> I rebooted again to 11.4, and I noticed I could not ping the router. I
>> tried connecting from my only other wifi device, an ebook, fail too. So
>> I rebooted the router… and it worked.
> I’ve been browsing the forums and/or working with web interfaces when
> similar loss of connectivity has happened to me, (and it’s not always
> been immediately obvious to me of the cause when I could still browse
> cached pages etc). It’s a moment of relief when I finally realise to
> give the router a kick, and all is well again. :slight_smile:

Indeed…

But you see, the router was running, there was nothing in the router
log, I could browse fine on the desktop machine… it was the laptop
which was not working. ie, apparently only the wifi on the router failed.

Another time, the router reset on its own to factory default, which also
disabled wifi.

It is not the first time the d*** thing makes me waste hours.

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 x86_64 “Asparagus” at Telcontar)

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On 2013-04-02 03:13, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> It is not the first time the d*** thing makes me waste hours.

I even forgot my supper! It is 3 AM and I forgot supper! :open_mouth:

No wonder I feel something funny in my stomach…

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 x86_64 “Asparagus” at Telcontar)

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> it has been warm today here, up to 24°C

and you were inside playing Geeky! shame on you! :slight_smile:

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dd

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On 2013-04-02 08:33, dd wrote:
>> it has been warm today here, up to 24°C
>
> and you were inside playing Geeky! shame on you! :slight_smile:

Indeed… O:-))

And with a background of Star Wars on the TV.
The first one they made. :slight_smile:

That was after the documentary on facebook on another channel. A geeky
friend told me about the documentary, so I brought the laptop to the
sitting room, and watched TV while I installed 12.3 on the test
partition…

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 x86_64 “Asparagus” at Telcontar)