Hi Lyndon, thanks for testing the iwd backend in NM. You might be interested in https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=919619 I'm bringing Andreas, the maintainer iwd into the loop here. Personally, I'm not using the iwd backend, so I'm not really qualified to tell whether the problems you are seeing are in iwd itself of in NM's implementation of the iwd backend. Maybe Andreas has some thoughts on this. In any case, it might be a good idea to involve NM upstream and file an issue at https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager Regards, Michael Am 08.09.20 um 01:26 schrieb Lyndon Brown: > this is driving me a little crazy today. > > some hours ago i was in the middle of getting some stuff transferred > over an rsync connection, when suddenly the transfers stopped > progressing. the connection had gone bad. > > so, since previously a solution seemed to be closing some programs, i > started closing things down and trying to reconnect (having turned the > wifi off temporarily via the gnome menu). > > this time, no luck, i'd closed all my open programs and it still would > not connect. of course it could be a background task, but whatever the > case, i needed to reboot. > > i rebooted, and unlike before, it just would not connect. it has taken > me ***2 whole damn hours*** of fiddling to get connected again. > > i rebooted the laptop multiple times; i rebooted the gateway multiple > times; it just would not work. i tried moving myself a few feet away > from the router to ensure a strong signal. i told NM to forget the > connection and re-added it, multiple times. i tried using iwctl to > connect, but it just immediately reported failure on every attempt. i > tried forcing a change of MAC with macchanger, no difference. > > my android smartphone connected fine when i fetched it and turned on > the wifi... i turned off the gateway to scan visible networks with the > smartphone to check that there wasn't a neighbour with the same router- > model SSID, nope. > > so i pushed the reset button on the gateway, told NM to forget the > connection, and interestingly had absolutely no trouble at all > connecting this time. > > i restored a backup of the gateway's config and it rebooted. i then > again had NM forget the connection and tried to re-add it, and it just > kept refusing, giving me an 'activation of network connection failed' > popup at the top of my screen. note, i'd been copying and pasting the > password, so i know that's not the issue, i even compared the password > in the NM connection config and that stored in the gateway (via a wired > connection from an old machine). > > i switched the gateway wifi channel, no difference. i set the SSID to > un-hidden. finally, shortly after doing this, it suddenly connected > fine. > > i switched it back to hidden, then i went and sat down with the laptop > to type this up, and after a minute or so, i notice the connection > suddenly disappear, and again it's refusing to connect. > > interestingly it was yesterday that iwd was updated to v1.9; i'd left > the laptop sleeping overnight, and just rebooting earlier today (if i > recall correctly), so perhaps the 1.9 update has either introduced yet > another problem on top, or otherwise made things much worse. > > since it's gone down again after switched back to hidden, i'll spend a > little more time experimenting... > > so, rebooted, no difference. moved next to gateway, no difference. > > logged back into gateway via wired connection of older machine, changed > wifi to non-hidden, saved, turned around and boom, it's suddenly got a > wifi connection. > > turned back to the old machine, changed to hidden again, turned back to > laptop, saw the wifi icon change to the '...' reconnect one > temporarily, but if i recall now correctly it remained up, i then > turned off and back on the wifi (on the laptop) and fails to connect. > switched back to unhidden, and connects perfectly. so yeah, > functionality for connecting to hidden networks is completely broken. > > so i switched things back to wpa_supplicant and rebooted. straight > away, no issues at all connecting to the hidden SSID (after forgetting > and re-adding again of course). i'm connected now and getting work done > again. > > well, it's almost working perfectly back on wpasupplicant, i was back > getting data transferred via rsync, and then eventually something went > wrong preventing further transfer, but turning the wifi off and back on > again fixed it. i recall that always being a bad as things had gotten > previously with wpasupplicant. > > _______________________________________________ > Pkg-utopia-maintainers mailing list > Pkg-utopia-maintainers@alioth-lists.debian.net > https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-utopia-maintainers >
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