USB WiFi broken after F27 to F28 upgrade

[Shawn Badger]

The USB WiFi adapter was working fine in F27 but after upgrading to F28 I
can not longer connect to the same SSID I was connected to before, or any
for that manner. I am using a Realtek RTL8191SU based adapter that has
worked well for me for years.

NetworkManager just keeps asking for the passphrase like I entered it
wrong. I cleared the saved SSIDs out and when they repopulated I tried it
again but still the same error. I went to the command line to see if it
would give me any addition information and here is what I got:

# nmcli device wifi connect MY_SSID password "MY_PASSPHRASE"
Error: Connection activation failed: (7) Secrets were required, but not
provided.

Then I tried it with go old wpa_supplicant:

# wpa_supplicant -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/badger.conf -i wlp4s0u2
Successfully initialized wpa_supplicant
nl80211: Driver does not support authentication/association or connect
commands
nl80211: deinit ifname=wlp4s0u2 disabled_11b_rates=0
wlp4s0u2: Failed to initialize driver interface


I though maybe it was an issue with the Realtek driver so i broke out my TP
Link adapter that uses a different chipset and found NetworkManger doesn't
even see it.

Did I miss something in my upgrade or settings that changed?

[David Medberry]

Had a similar issue. Haven't found a solution yet.

On Sun, Jul 8, 2018 at 9:15 AM, Shawn Badger <shawn(a)badger.pro&gt; wrote:

>  The USB WiFi adapter was working fine in F27 but after upgrading to
> F28 I
>  can not longer connect to the same SSID I was connected to before, or any
>  for that manner. I am using a Realtek RTL8191SU based adapter that has
>  worked well for me for years.
>
>  NetworkManager just keeps asking for the passphrase like I entered it
>  wrong. I cleared the saved SSIDs out and when they repopulated I tried it
>  again but still the same error. I went to the command line to see if it
>  would give me any addition information and here is what I got:
>
>  # nmcli device wifi connect MY_SSID password "MY_PASSPHRASE"
>  Error: Connection activation failed: (7) Secrets were required, but not
>  provided.
>
>  Then I tried it with go old wpa_supplicant:
>
>  # wpa_supplicant -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/badger.conf -i wlp4s0u2
>  Successfully initialized wpa_supplicant
>  nl80211: Driver does not support authentication/association or connect
>  commands
>  nl80211: deinit ifname=wlp4s0u2 disabled_11b_rates=0
>  wlp4s0u2: Failed to initialize driver interface
>
>
>  I though maybe it was an issue with the Realtek driver so i broke out my
>  TP Link adapter that uses a different chipset and found NetworkManger
>  doesn't even see it.
>
>  Did I miss something in my upgrade or settings that changed?
>
>
>
>
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[David Medberry]

Mine that failed (in dmesg) was the Intel Wifi built into a P50 Thinkpad.
It's only a kernel issue for me as I can just boot the F27 kernel and
everything still works (so likely unrelated to your issue.) I hadn't
considered using a USB wifi device to see if other wifi nics have the same
issue. I'll give that a whirl shortly with a realtek.

On Sun, Jul 8, 2018 at 1:51 PM, David Medberry <med(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:

>  Had a similar issue. Haven't found a solution yet.
>
>  On Sun, Jul 8, 2018 at 9:15 AM, Shawn Badger <shawn(a)badger.pro&gt; wrote:
>
> > The USB WiFi adapter was working fine in F27 but after upgrading to F28 I
> > can not longer connect to the same SSID I was connected to before, or any
> > for that manner. I am using a Realtek RTL8191SU based adapter that has
> > worked well for me for years.
> >
> > NetworkManager just keeps asking for the passphrase like I entered it
> > wrong. I cleared the saved SSIDs out and when they repopulated I tried it
> > again but still the same error. I went to the command line to see if it
> > would give me any addition information and here is what I got:
> >
> > # nmcli device wifi connect MY_SSID password "MY_PASSPHRASE"
> > Error: Connection activation failed: (7) Secrets were required, but not
> > provided.
> >
> > Then I tried it with go old wpa_supplicant:
> >
> > # wpa_supplicant -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/badger.conf -i wlp4s0u2
> > Successfully initialized wpa_supplicant
> > nl80211: Driver does not support authentication/association or connect
> > commands
> > nl80211: deinit ifname=wlp4s0u2 disabled_11b_rates=0
> > wlp4s0u2: Failed to initialize driver interface
> >
> >
> > I though maybe it was an issue with the Realtek driver so i broke out my
> > TP Link adapter that uses a different chipset and found NetworkManger
> > doesn't even see it.
> >
> > Did I miss something in my upgrade or settings that changed?
> >
> >
> >
> >
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