On Sat, Jun 27, 2020 at 10:55:45PM +0200, Thomas Haller wrote: > On Sat, 2020-06-27 at 13:38 -0700, Patrick Mansfield via > networkmanager-list wrote: > > Hi - > > > > I had my wifi working as an AP at one point, but had to alter things > > to get my wired > > network working (had a bad PCI dual port card and replaced it). > > > > Running up to date Fedora 31, kernel 5.6.19-200.fc31.x86_64. > > > > # nmcli -v > > nmcli tool, version 1.20.12-1.fc31 > > > > I completely removed and added back the interface using nmcli. > > > > Now when I try to bring it up, I get: > > > > # nmcli con up nm_wifi0 > > Error: Connection activation failed: No suitable device found for > > this connection (device lan0 not available because profile is not > > compatible with device (mismatching interface name)). > > Hi, > > > NetworkManager didn't find *any* device that was suitable to activate > the profile. It somewhat arbitrarily said that for example "device lan0 > was not suitable due to reasons"). It should be smarter to recogonize > that device wlan0 would be the better one to report in the error > message. > > You'd get a better message if you do: > > nmcli con up my_wifi0 ifname wlan0 > > to tell NetworkManager to activate the profile on that device. But that > still wouldn't succeed, it would just give a more suitable error > message. > > > What does `nmcli device` say? > > If the device TYPE is not "wifi", you didn't install the Wi-Fi plugin > (install it and restart NetworkManager). > > If the device of type wifi but in state "unavailable", probably > something is wrong with wpa_supplicant. Check the logs. Consider > enabling level=TRACE logging (and restart NetworkManager to get the > relevant messages picture). See > https://cgit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/tree/contrib/fedora/rpm/NetworkManager.conf#n28 > for hints about logging.
Thanks - I had an issue with wpa_supplicant, and I had left old network names in I think to avoid the messages below. I have it runing now and the AP is working! (Also had to give it an IP address.) I'm getting these logged about every second: Jun 27 14:24:51 umbrella wpa_supplicant[79758]: wifi0: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-FAILED ret=-95 retry=1 Jun 27 14:24:52 umbrella wpa_supplicant[79758]: wifi0: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-FAILED ret=-95 retry=1 Any idea on how to stop the above? -- Patrick _______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
