#15420: I am experiencing problems trying to connect, idualwifi7260
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Reporter: WildKeccak | Owner: waddlesplash
Type: bug | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: Unscheduled
Component: Drivers/Network/idualwifi7260 | Version: R1/Development
Resolution: | Keywords:
Blocked By: | Blocking:
Has a Patch: 0 | Platform: x86-64
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Comment (by miqlas):
I have the same hw and same problem, this is what i experience:
1) Trying to join to a WLAN
2) Password window pops up
3) I fill the password and tick the save password box, then try to connect
4) Sometimes it work, in this case no other steps necessary.
5) If it doesn't works for the first try, the password window pops up
again, password already prefilled
6) I press connect again
7) Password window pops up again after a while
8) If i open the Network preflet, i see no networks in the WLAN SSID
lists, as like the network card became deaf
9) I disable the card and re-enable it in the network preflet
10) SSIDs shows up in the list again
11) Start the process over from point 5
So what i see is: the password box pops up, even if the network card
became deaf. It just repeatedly pops up. No other sign of complete lost of
the networking ability (=deaf), just the empty SSID list. I assume not
everybody notices this, and just gets annoyed it doesn't connect.
But if the password once saved and while the SSID's visible in the list
the password window pops sometimes still up. In this case pressing Cancel
in the password window results a successful connection establishment. I
use this trick daily. Hope it will help.
So i think this phenomen is a result of 2 or more bug:
- WLAN card loses ability to see the networks (=deaf, seeing no WLANs),
wpa_supplicant can't handle this and trying to asking for password for an
unavailable network because the lost connectivity ability of the wlan
card. This should not happen, but if the tried network goes missing Haiku
maybe could try to reset the card automatically (disable/enable)
- Even if the card sees the SSID's, the connection establishment is
somehow unsuccessful, and it asks repeatedly for password, i don't know
why it is happening. Maybe the network_server can't acquire the DHCP
settings and timeouts, but i am unsure.
This happens for me with wpa_supplicant 2.7 and 2.9 too. Hope it gives
some hints.
So @WildKecak, please test this: make sure the networks still listed in
the network preflet (or with the network replicant) while the password
popup visible and try to press cancel in the password window. (unsure
about the button text, but it is on the left side of the window)
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Ticket URL: <https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/15420#comment:13>
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