Wlan0 not connecting

[John W. Linville]

On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 12:02:48PM -0400, Jim wrote:
> FC 8-i386 Laptop
> Can't get Fedora to connect wireless with a RTL8187L.
> The RTL8187 driver is loading as a module.
> Below is the /var/log/messages on connecting.

> Mar 15 11:47:29 localhost NetworkManager: <info>  User request for activation of wlan0.
> Mar 15 11:47:29 localhost NetworkManager: <info>  Activating device wlan0
> Mar 15 11:47:29 localhost NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (wlan0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) scheduled...
> Mar 15 11:47:29 localhost NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (wlan0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) started...
> Mar 15 11:47:29 localhost NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (wlan0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) scheduled...
> Mar 15 11:47:29 localhost NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (wlan0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) complete.
> Mar 15 11:47:29 localhost NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (wlan0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) starting...
> Mar 15 11:47:29 localhost NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (wlan0/wireless): connection 'Auto linksys' requires no security.  No secrets needed.
> Mar 15 11:47:29 localhost NetworkManager: <info>  Config: added 'ssid' value 'linksys'
> Mar 15 11:47:29 localhost NetworkManager: <info>  Config: added 'key_mgmt' value 'NONE'
> Mar 15 11:47:29 localhost NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (wlan0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) complete.
> Mar 15 11:47:29 localhost NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0) Supplicant interface state change: 2 -> 0
> Mar 15 11:47:29 localhost NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0) Supplicant interface state change: 0 -> 2
> Mar 15 11:47:54 localhost NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (wlan0/wireless): association took too long, failing activation.
> Mar 15 11:47:54 localhost NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (wlan0) failed for access point (linksys)
> Mar 15 11:47:54 localhost NetworkManager: <info>  Marking connection 'Auto linksys' invalid.
> Mar 15 11:47:54 localhost NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (wlan0) failed.
> Mar 15 11:47:54 localhost NetworkManager: <info>  Deactivating device wlan0.
> Mar 15 11:47:54 localhost NetworkManager: <WARN>  remove_network_cb(): Couldn't remove network from supplicant interface: The requested network does not exist..

I'm not familiar with this last message.  I don't know if it indicates
a wpa_supplicant problem or a kernel problem.

Perhaps you should open a bugzilla entry?

	http://bugzilla.redhat.com

Thanks,

John
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John W. Linville
linville at redhat.com