On Sunday, 19 August, 2012 16:25:50 you wrote: > > From: [email protected] > > Every two hours or so, NM pops up a window asking me for the wifi > > router password. Well if I Cancel, it disconnects me! This is a > > nuisance. How do I make it stay connected? > > Probably needs more info from the logs and warrants a bug report or > comments to existing bug reports.
I find that every hour, this happens: Aug 19 07:58:14 hex wpa_supplicant[3229]: wlan0: WPA: Group rekeying completed with 00:24:b2:5a:1a:7d [GTK=CCMP] Then every ten minutes or so I get this: Aug 19 10:20:53 hex wpa_supplicant[3229]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED bssid=00:24:b2:5a:1d:5e reason=4 And intermittently: Aug 19 10:37:22 hex kernel: [109905.097576] wlan0: authenticate with 00:24:b2:5a:1d:5e (try 1) Aug 19 10:37:22 hex NetworkManager[17362]: <info> (wlan0): supplicant interface state: scanning -> authenticating Aug 19 10:37:22 hex kernel: [109905.294099] wlan0: authenticate with 00:24:b2:5a:1d:5e (try 2) Aug 19 10:37:22 hex kernel: [109905.493764] wlan0: authenticate with 00:24:b2:5a:1d:5e (try 3) Aug 19 10:37:22 hex kernel: [109905.693395] wlan0: authentication with 00:24:b2:5a:1d:5e timed out Aug 19 10:37:22 hex NetworkManager[17362]: <info> (wlan0): supplicant interface state: authenticating -> disconnected Aug 19 10:37:23 hex NetworkManager[17362]: <info> (wlan0): supplicant interface state: disconnected -> scanning Aug 19 10:37:25 hex wpa_supplicant[3229]: wlan0: SME: Trying to authenticate with 00:24:b2:5a:1d:5e (SSID='Sirius' freq=5785 MHz) Aug 19 10:37:25 hex NetworkManager[17362]: <info> (wlan0): supplicant interface state: scanning -> authenticating Aug 19 10:37:25 hex kernel: [109908.372965] wlan0: authenticate with 00:24:b2:5a:1d:5e (try 1) Aug 19 10:37:25 hex kernel: [109908.572432] wlan0: authenticate with 00:24:b2:5a:1d:5e (try 2) Aug 19 10:37:26 hex kernel: [109908.772069] wlan0: authenticate with 00:24:b2:5a:1d:5e (try 3) Aug 19 10:37:26 hex kernel: [109908.971777] wlan0: authentication with 00:24:b2:5a:1d:5e timed out Aug 19 10:37:26 hex NetworkManager[17362]: <info> (wlan0): supplicant interface state: authenticating -> disconnected Aug 19 10:37:26 hex NetworkManager[17362]: <info> (wlan0): supplicant interface state: disconnected -> scanning Aug 19 10:37:28 hex wpa_supplicant[3229]: wlan0: SME: Trying to authenticate with 00:24:b2:5a:1d:5e (SSID='Sirius' freq=5785 MHz) Aug 19 10:37:28 hex NetworkManager[17362]: <info> (wlan0): supplicant interface state: scanning -> authenticating Aug 19 10:37:28 hex kernel: [109911.647354] wlan0: authenticate with 00:24:b2:5a:1d:5e (try 1) Aug 19 10:37:29 hex kernel: [109911.846796] wlan0: authenticate with 00:24:b2:5a:1d:5e (try 2) Aug 19 10:37:29 hex kernel: [109912.046456] wlan0: authenticate with 00:24:b2:5a:1d:5e (try 3) Aug 19 10:37:29 hex kernel: [109912.246114] wlan0: authentication with 00:24:b2:5a:1d:5e timed out Aug 19 10:37:29 hex NetworkManager[17362]: <info> (wlan0): supplicant interface state: authenticating -> disconnected Aug 19 10:37:29 hex NetworkManager[17362]: <info> (wlan0): supplicant interface state: disconnected -> scanning Aug 19 10:37:32 hex wpa_supplicant[3229]: wlan0: SME: Trying to authenticate with 00:24:b2:5a:1d:5e (SSID='Sirius' freq=5785 MHz) Aug 19 10:37:32 hex NetworkManager[17362]: <info> (wlan0): supplicant interface state: scanning -> authenticating Aug 19 10:37:32 hex kernel: [109915.021607] wlan0: authenticate with 00:24:b2:5a:1d:5e (try 1) Aug 19 10:37:32 hex kernel: [109915.220979] wlan0: authenticate with 00:24:b2:5a:1d:5e (try 2) Aug 19 10:37:32 hex kernel: [109915.420622] wlan0: authenticate with 00:24:b2:5a:1d:5e (try 3) Aug 19 10:37:32 hex kernel: [109915.620296] wlan0: authentication with 00:24:b2:5a:1d:5e timed out Aug 19 10:37:32 hex NetworkManager[17362]: <info> (wlan0): supplicant interface state: authenticating -> disconnected Aug 19 10:37:33 hex NetworkManager[17362]: <info> (wlan0): supplicant interface state: disconnected -> scanning Aug 19 10:37:34 hex NetworkManager[17362]: <warn> Activation (wlan0/wireless): association took too long. Aug 19 10:37:34 hex NetworkManager[17362]: <info> (wlan0): device state change: config -> need-auth (reason 'none') [50 60 0] Aug 19 10:37:34 hex NetworkManager[17362]: <warn> Activation (wlan0/wireless): asking for new secrets Aug 19 10:37:34 hex NetworkManager[17362]: <info> (wlan0): supplicant interface state: scanning -> disconnected Aug 19 10:37:34 hex NetworkManager[17362]: <warn> Couldn't disconnect supplicant interface: This interface is not connected. Aug 19 10:39:34 hex NetworkManager[17362]: <warn> No agents were available for this request. Aug 19 10:39:34 hex NetworkManager[17362]: <info> (wlan0): device state change: need-auth -> failed (reason 'no-secrets') [60 120 7] Aug 19 10:39:34 hex NetworkManager[17362]: <warn> Activation (wlan0) failed for access point (Sirius) Aug 19 10:39:34 hex NetworkManager[17362]: <info> Marking connection 'Sirius' invalid. Aug 19 10:39:34 hex NetworkManager[17362]: <warn> Activation (wlan0) failed. Aug 19 10:39:34 hex NetworkManager[17362]: <info> (wlan0): device state change: failed -> disconnected (reason 'none') [120 30 0] Aug 19 10:39:34 hex NetworkManager[17362]: <info> (wlan0): deactivating device (reason 'none') [0] Aug 19 10:44:34 hex NetworkManager[17362]: <info> Auto-activating connection 'Sirius'. Aug 19 10:44:34 hex NetworkManager[17362]: <info> Activation (wlan0) starting connection 'Sirius' Aug 19 10:44:34 hex NetworkManager[17362]: <info> (wlan0): device state change: disconnected -> prepare (reason 'none') [30 40 0] > > Also I want to run macchanger. This needs to run in if-pre-up.d, but > > it seems NM ignores this dir. How do I make NM execute macchanger > > before it brings up the interface? > > Is there any reason to use macchanger instead of NM's buit-in functionality? Yeah, it only allows one cloned MAC address. I want random MACs every boot, which I used to have. _______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
