Fedora 16 Wireless Connection Problem

[muhammad ammar]

I have Dell Inpiron N5010 with Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller.

My OS is Fedora 16 64-bit. I have installed the following drivers for my wireless controller, everything is working great until yesterday. Now whenever i try to connect to wirless connection, it failed.

http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfr...oadcom-wl.html

I haven't installed anything that can cause this problem.

Following are log messages from /var/log/messages when i try to connect to connection. I have double checked connection settings and everything is correct.

Dec 24 00:46:15 ma-laptop NetworkManager[1039]: <info> Activation (eth1) starting connection 'Auto Communication Gallery'
Dec 24 00:46:15 ma-laptop NetworkManager[1039]: <info> (eth1): device state change: disconnected -> prepare (reason 'none') [30 40 0]
Dec 24 00:46:15 ma-laptop NetworkManager[1039]: NetworkManager[1039]: <info> Activation (eth1) starting connection 'Auto Communication Gallery'
Dec 24 00:46:15 ma-laptop NetworkManager[1039]: NetworkManager[1039]: <info> (eth1): device state change: disconnected -> prepare (reason 'none') [30 40 0]
Dec 24 00:46:15 ma-laptop NetworkManager[1039]: <info> Activation (eth1) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) scheduled...
Dec 24 00:46:15 ma-laptop NetworkManager[1039]: NetworkManager[1039]: <info> Activation (eth1) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) scheduled...
Dec 24 00:46:15 ma-laptop NetworkManager[1039]: <info> Activation (eth1) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) started...
Dec 24 00:46:15 ma-laptop NetworkManager[1039]: NetworkManager[1039]: <info> Activation (eth1) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) started...
Dec 24 00:46:15 ma-laptop NetworkManager[1039]: <info> Activation (eth1) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) scheduled...
Dec 24 00:46:15 ma-laptop NetworkManager[1039]: <info> Activation (eth1) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) complete.
Dec 24 00:46:15 ma-laptop NetworkManager[1039]: NetworkManager[1039]: <info> Activation (eth1) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) scheduled...
Dec 24 00:46:15 ma-laptop NetworkManager[1039]: NetworkManager[1039]: <info> Activation (eth1) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) complete.
Dec 24 00:46:15 ma-laptop NetworkManager[1039]: <info> Activation (eth1) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) starting...
Dec 24 00:46:15 ma-laptop NetworkManager[1039]: NetworkManager[1039]: <info> Activation (eth1) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) starting...
Dec 24 00:46:15 ma-laptop NetworkManager[1039]: <info> (eth1): device state change: prepare -> config (reason 'none') [40 50 0]
Dec 24 00:46:15 ma-laptop NetworkManager[1039]: NetworkManager[1039]: <info> (eth1): device state change: prepare -> config (reason 'none') [40 50 0]
Dec 24 00:46:15 ma-laptop NetworkManager[1039]: <info> Activation (eth1/wireless): connection 'Auto Communication Gallery' has security, and secrets exist. No new secrets needed.
Dec 24 00:46:15 ma-laptop NetworkManager[1039]: NetworkManager[1039]: <info> Activation (eth1/wireless): connection 'Auto Communication Gallery' has security, and secrets exist. No new secrets needed.
Dec 24 00:46:15 ma-laptop NetworkManager[1039]: <info> Config: added 'ssid' value 'Communication Gallery'
Dec 24 00:46:15 ma-laptop NetworkManager[1039]: NetworkManager[1039]: <info> Config: added 'ssid' value 'Communication Gallery'
Dec 24 00:46:15 ma-laptop NetworkManager[1039]: <info> Config: added 'scan_ssid' value '1'
Dec 24 00:46:15 ma-laptop NetworkManager[1039]: <info> Config: added 'key_mgmt' value 'NONE'
Dec 24 00:46:15 ma-laptop NetworkManager[1039]: <info> Config: added 'wep_key0' value '<omitted>'
Dec 24 00:46:15 ma-laptop NetworkManager[1039]: <info> Config: added 'wep_tx_keyidx' value '0'
Dec 24 00:46:15 ma-laptop NetworkManager[1039]: <info> Activation (eth1) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) complete.
Dec 24 00:46:15 ma-laptop NetworkManager[1039]: NetworkManager[1039]: <info> Config: added 'scan_ssid' value '1'
Dec 24 00:46:15 ma-laptop NetworkManager[1039]: NetworkManager[1039]: <info> Config: added 'key_mgmt' value 'NONE'
Dec 24 00:46:15 ma-laptop NetworkManager[1039]: NetworkManager[1039]: <info> Config: added 'wep_key0' value '<omitted>'
Dec 24 00:46:15 ma-laptop NetworkManager[1039]: NetworkManager[1039]: <info> Config: added 'wep_tx_keyidx' value '0'
Dec 24 00:46:15 ma-laptop NetworkManager[1039]: NetworkManager[1039]: <info> Activation (eth1) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) complete.
Dec 24 00:46:15 ma-laptop NetworkManager[1039]: <info> Config: set interface ap_scan to 1
Dec 24 00:46:15 ma-laptop NetworkManager[1039]: NetworkManager[1039]: <info> Config: set interface ap_scan to 1
Dec 24 00:46:16 ma-laptop NetworkManager[1039]: <info> (eth1): supplicant interface state: inactive -> scanning
Dec 24 00:46:16 ma-laptop NetworkManager[1039]: NetworkManager[1039]: <info> (eth1): supplicant interface state: inactive -> scanning
Dec 24 00:46:41 ma-laptop NetworkManager[1039]: <warn> Activation (eth1/wireless): association took too long.
Dec 24 00:46:41 ma-laptop NetworkManager[1039]: <info> (eth1): device state change: config -> need-auth (reason 'none') [50 60 0]
Dec 24 00:46:41 ma-laptop NetworkManager[1039]: NetworkManager[1039]: <warn> Activation (eth1/wireless): association took too long.
Dec 24 00:46:41 ma-laptop NetworkManager[1039]: NetworkManager[1039]: <info> (eth1): device state change: config -> need-auth (reason 'none') [50 60 0]
Dec 24 00:46:41 ma-laptop NetworkManager[1039]: <warn> Activation (eth1/wireless): asking for new secrets
Dec 24 00:46:41 ma-laptop NetworkManager[1039]: NetworkManager[1039]: <warn> Activation (eth1/wireless): asking for new secrets
Dec 24 00:46:41 ma-laptop NetworkManager[1039]: <warn> Couldn't disconnect supplicant interface: This interface is not connected.
Dec 24 00:46:41 ma-laptop NetworkManager[1039]: NetworkManager[1039]: <warn> Couldn't disconnect supplicant interface: This interface is not connected.
Dec 24 00:46:41 ma-laptop NetworkManager[1039]: <warn> Couldn't disconnect supplicant interface: This interface is not connected.
Dec 24 00:46:41 ma-laptop NetworkManager[1039]: NetworkManager[1039]: <warn> Couldn't disconnect supplicant interface: This interface is not connected.
Dec 24 00:46:43 ma-laptop NetworkManager[1039]: <info> (eth1): supplicant interface state: scanning -> inactive
Dec 24 00:46:43 ma-laptop NetworkManager[1039]: NetworkManager[1039]: <info> (eth1): supplicant interface state: scanning -> inactive
Dec 24 00:46:52 ma-laptop NetworkManager[1039]: <warn> No agents were available for this request.

Can anyone help me?

Thanks

[stoat]

According to linuxwireless.org, the BCM4313 chipset is supported by the new brcmsmac driver. That driver now is included with Fedora kernels as a kernel module. But I think it became available after the release of Fedora 16. So you may only need to update your system via a wired connection and reboot. I would try that now.

[muhammad ammar]

Originally Posted by stoat

According to linuxwireless.org, the BCM4313 chipset is supported by the new brcmsmac driver. That driver now is included with Fedora kernels as a kernel module. But I think it became available after the release of Fedora 16. So you may only need to update your system via a wired connection and reboot. I would try that now.

Great Great Thanks stoat.

PROBLEM SOLVED.

I just updated the system and wireless is working great again.

But i really didn't understand what happened. How the wireless stopped working? In the last 5 days i haven't installed anything, nothing.

[pacific0]

This happened already on my acer aspire 4520 when the battery drained and bios configuration was lost, some how when this happens the wifi cards get dissabled.

Regards

[JEO]

The wireless was failing to associate. Sometimes the wireless access point can get in a bad "state" and cause this problem. Waiting for a period of time and the problem goes away.