> From: [email protected] > 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]
This should be ok. > 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 That's the problem. > 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 This looks like a failed authentication attempt. > '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] Just cleanup. > 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] This is probably not enough. By the way, do you have IPv6 in your network? > > > 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. On every boot or on every connection start? Cheers, Pavel _______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
