[PLUG] wireless problem after software update

Russell Senior russell at personaltelco.net
Wed Jun 19 22:29:08 UTC 2019


Connect over a wire to the admin interface and confirm you are typing the
wifi key correctly.

On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 3:00 PM logical american <website.reader3 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello
>
> I am trying to determine the best course of action to fix a password
> authentication problem with the wireless router after a software update.
>
> After the software update yesterday for openSuse Leap 15.0 (64 bit) OS,
> all of a sudden I could no longer connect with my WPA2-PSK wireless router.
>
> The wpa_supplicant log shows the following when trying to connect (a
> password is asked for) :
>
> 1560974114.070337: wlan2: SME: Trying to authenticate with
> 74:31:70:03:95:e4 (SSID='Puma_Bear' freq=2417 MHz)
> 1560974114.097852: wlan2: Trying to associate with 74:31:70:03:95:e4
> (SSID='Puma_Bear' freq=2417 MHz)
> 1560974114.105401: wlan2: Associated with 74:31:70:03:95:e4
> 1560974114.105426: wlan2: CTRL-EVENT-SUBNET-STATUS-UPDATE status=0
> 1560974114.153187: wlan2: WPA: Failed to set GTK to the driver (alg=2
> keylen=32 keyidx=1)
> 1560974114.153204: wlan2: RSN: Failed to configure GTK
> 1560974114.163499: wlan2: CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED
> bssid=74:31:70:03:95:e4 reason=1 locally_generated=1
> 1560974114.163529: wlan2: CTRL-EVENT-SSID-TEMP-DISABLED id=0
> ssid="Puma_Bear" auth_failures=1 duration=10 reason=CONN_FAILED
> 1560974114.175207: wlan2: CTRL-EVENT-REGDOM-CHANGE init=CORE type=WORLD
> 1560974125.550043: wlan2: CTRL-EVENT-SSID-REENABLED id=0 ssid="Puma_Bear"
> 1560974125.550214: wlan2: SME: Trying to authenticate with
> 74:31:70:03:95:e4 (SSID='Puma_Bear' freq=2417 MHz)
> 1560974125.576074: wlan2: Trying to associate with 74:31:70:03:95:e4
> (SSID='Puma_Bear' freq=2417 MHz)
> 1560974125.581516: wlan2: Associated with 74:31:70:03:95:e4
> 1560974125.581541: wlan2: CTRL-EVENT-SUBNET-STATUS-UPDATE status=0
> 1560974125.610731: wlan2: WPA: Failed to set GTK to the driver (alg=2
> keylen=32 keyidx=1)
> 1560974125.610748: wlan2: RSN: Failed to configure GTK
> 1560974125.621047: wlan2: CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED
> bssid=74:31:70:03:95:e4 reason=1 locally_generated=1
> 1560974125.621076: wlan2: CTRL-EVENT-SSID-TEMP-DISABLED id=0
> ssid="Puma_Bear" auth_failures=2 duration=20 reason=CONN_FAILED
> 1560974125.631411: wlan2: CTRL-EVENT-REGDOM-CHANGE init=CORE type=WORLD
> 1560974138.371062: wlan2: Reject scan trigger since one is already pending
> 1560974337.504917: rfkill: WLAN soft blocked
> 1560974337.605744: nl80211: deinit ifname=wlan2 disabled_11b_rates=0
>
> Careful reading of internet information shows that the error line
> "Failed to set GTK to the driver" is a problem with password
> authentication and/or setting.
>
> The wireless driver is nl80211
>
> I tried the modprobe command to load up possible wlan modules, thinking
> that perhaps the problem was a missing kernel module, but so far that
> did not solve the problem.
>
> What would be a reasonable action?
>
> 1. Get onto the appropriate openSuse forum and ask around?
> 2. Try to undo the software update? (this might be very difficult since
> kernel changes occurred)
> 3. Try to troubleshoot the wpa_supplicant program and dump a trail of
> results?
>
>
> The password for the router has not been changed, and it works okay with
> another machine upon authenticating with the WPA2-PSK password, so I
> have to assume that the problem is perhaps in the linux 4.12.14 Leap
> 150.12.64 kernel missing the appropriate crypt module for wireless service?
>
> Thanks for any comments or observations.
>
> - Randall
>
>
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