Wireless connection not working after update to OpenSuse 13.1 from 12.3

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#1

Hello to everyone.

I’ve got the following problem: I’ve updated system to 13.1 from 12.3 and now I can not connect to wireless network. Everything was great before update and network manager worked without any problems.

I am using, HP Envy m6-1221er laptop, OpenSuse 13.1 64bit (not fresh install, 12.3 was updated to 13.1 according to this manual http://en.opensuse.org/Upgrade without any problem/warning/error)

The situation could be described as follows:

  1. pressing left button on NM in tray
  2. pressing title of desired network
  3. NM starts connection
  4. but after a minute I’ve got “Connection failed”
  5. the desired network title disappears from list of available network.

This is the common flow. I’ve tried and other variants to:

  • removing/adding connection from System Settings > Network Settings > Wireless and so on.
  • I’ve tried to USE Yast2 to setup wireless connection - with no luck
  • disabling / re-enabling NM

One more thing, sometimes after rebooting NM creates a connection, but just for a 1-2 minutes, during this time I could

ping 8.8.8.8

but could not

ping google.com

So, it looks like a DNS problem. But then NM loses connection and it could not be established again.

Any suggestions ? Do you need some output from dmesg, lspci ?

#2

Sorry, it looks like I missed a tutorial about how to post such kind of questions, I will add everything in a 10 minutes

#3

Here is some console output

#lspci

…
02:00.2 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 0a)
03:00.0 Network controller: Ralink corp. RT3290 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe

#lspci -n

…
02:00.2 0200: 10ec:8168 (rev 0a)
03:00.0 0280: 1814:3290
…

#iwconfig

eth0 no wireless extensions.

lo no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=0 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off

#iwlist scan

eth0 Interface doesn’t support scanning.

lo Interface doesn’t support scanning.

wlan0 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 00:1C:F0:D8:65:9F
Channel:6
Frequency:2.437 GHz (Channel 6)
Quality=28/70 Signal level=-82 dBm
Encryption key:on
ESSID:“prog_42”
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s
12 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s
Bit Rates:9 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
Mode:Master
Extra:tsf=00000683e80fa888
Extra: Last beacon: 29ms ago
IE: Unknown: 000770726F675F3432
IE: Unknown: 010882848B960C183048
IE: Unknown: 030106
IE: Unknown: 0706474220010D11
IE: Unknown: 2A0100
IE: Unknown: 32041224606C
IE: WPA Version 1
Group Cipher : TKIP
Pairwise Ciphers (2) : TKIP CCMP
Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
Cell 02 - Address: C8:BC:C8:BE:53:C1
Channel:10
Frequency:2.457 GHz (Channel 10)
Quality=55/70 Signal level=-55 dBm
Encryption key:on
ESSID:“MacDevelop”
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s
9 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=00000003ecdeb7d0
Extra: Last beacon: 29ms ago
IE: Unknown: 000A4D6163446576656C6F70
IE: Unknown: 010882848B960C121824
IE: Unknown: 03010A
IE: Unknown: 2A0100
IE: IEEE 802.11i/WPA2 Version 1
Group Cipher : CCMP
Pairwise Ciphers (1) : CCMP
Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
IE: Unknown: 32043048606C
IE: Unknown: 2D1A8C411BFFFF000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
IE: Unknown: 331A8C411BFFFF000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
IE: Unknown: 3D160A001300000000000000000000000000000000000000
IE: Unknown: 34160A001300000000000000000000000000000000000000
IE: Unknown: 4A0E14000A002C01C800140005001900
IE: Unknown: 7F0101
IE: Unknown: DD180050F2020101020003A4000027A4000042435E0062322F00
IE: Unknown: DD0900037F01010000FF7F
IE: Unknown: DD150017F209000108694D616331312C32010103010000
Cell 03 - Address: C8:BC:C8:E2:25:A0
Channel:11
Frequency:2.462 GHz (Channel 11)
Quality=61/70 Signal level=-49 dBm
Encryption key:on
ESSID:“Mac mini”
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
Bit Rates:6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s
Mode:Master
Extra:tsf=0000000000000000
Extra: Last beacon: 29ms ago
IE: Unknown: 00084D6163206D696E69
IE: Unknown: 010882848B962430486C
IE: Unknown: 03010B
IE: Unknown: 2A0100
IE: Unknown: 2F0100
IE: IEEE 802.11i/WPA2 Version 1
Group Cipher : CCMP
Pairwise Ciphers (1) : CCMP
Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
IE: Unknown: 32040C121860
IE: Unknown: 2D1A2C181BFFFF000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
IE: Unknown: 3D160B080400000000000000000000000000000000000000
IE: Unknown: DD170017F20900010A4D61636D696E69342C31010103010000
IE: Unknown: DD180050F2020101800003A4000027A4000042435E0062322F00
Cell 04 - Address: 0C:37:DC:0F:42:56
Channel:1
Frequency:2.412 GHz (Channel 1)
Quality=32/70 Signal level=-78 dBm
Encryption key:on
ESSID:"\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00"
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=00000002b7aaa180
Extra: Last beacon: 1001ms ago
IE: Unknown: 00110000000000000000000000000000000000
IE: Unknown: 010882848B0C12961824
IE: Unknown: 030101
IE: Unknown: 050400010000
IE: Unknown: 0706434E20010D14
IE: Unknown: 2A0100
IE: Unknown: 32043048606C
IE: Unknown: 2D1A2C0000FF00000000000000000000008000000000000000000000
IE: Unknown: 3D1601000100000000000000000000000000000000000000
IE: WPA Version 1
Group Cipher : TKIP
Pairwise Ciphers (2) : CCMP TKIP
Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
IE: Unknown: DD180050F2020101000003A4000027A4000042435E0062322F00
IE: Unknown: DD0E0050F204104A0001101044000102

#4

On 01/16/2014 02:46 AM, daxh wrote:
>
> Here is some console output
>
> #lspci
>
> …
> 02:00.2 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
> RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 0a)
> 03:00.0 Network controller: Ralink corp. RT3290 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R
> PCIe
>
> #lspci -n
>
> …
> 02:00.2 0200: 10ec:8168 (rev 0a)
> 03:00.0 0280: 1814:3290

Using ‘lspci -nn’ combines the two outputs and makes posting easier.

Apparently, there is a problem with the RT3290 in the standard 13.1 kernel. In a
similar thread entitled “Ralink Wifi rt3290 is not working on opensuse 13.” in
this forum, the poster followed the instructions at
http://kernel.opensuse.org/packages/openSUSE-13.1 to get a later kernel.

#5

Yeah, looks like the correct way to fix it is to update the kernel version. I’ve updated it to 3.12.7-2.1

#6

Want to add one more thing. Probably I’ve used not the best way to update kernel, I don’t remember exactly but I’ve downloaded few required rmps from somewhere here:

http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Kernel:/openSUSE-13.1/standard/

Add installed them via yast2. After some time, when official kernel-3.11.10 was ready to be installed via yast2 I’ve faced the problem that I couldn’t autoupdate system via Apper for the reason of ‘can’t resolve dependencies’. In the end I’ve decided to remove kernel 3.12 from OS, and installed 3.11.10.

Finally, now I have kernel 3.11.10 installed directly from yast2, so this is officially supported kernel for openSuse 13.1 and I could confirm that there is no problem with Wi-Fi. Also I solved all problems related to autoupdate, and now my system is up to date.