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Can't connect to some specific wifis (lemm.ee)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello evryone, I need help with this annoying problem where I can’t connect to some specific wifi even though I’m entering the correct password.

I went to a coffee house near my in-laws for some alone time where I got this annoying problem again. I was able to connect normally to their wifi (TP VSTM) using my phone but not on my laptop. So I made a QR image of that wifi (on my phone while connecting to it) and read it online (on my laptop) to make sure I’m entering the correct password. I tried connecting using nmtui at first but it kept prompting me to re-enter the password, then using nmcli which showed a message about a secret not provided.

screenshot https://ibb.co/MSqtmPZ

journalctl -b 0 -f -u NetworkManager.service | tee networkmanager.log

The log shows :

Activation: (wifi) asking for new secrets
device (wlp2s0): no secrets: No agents were available for this request.
device (wlp2s0): state change: need-auth -> failed (reason 'no-secrets', sys-iface-state: 'managed')
<info>  [1704445064.8171] manager: NetworkManager state is now DISCONNECTED

but I didn't get any prompt other than the one asking my root password for connecting.

What I have: I’m running OpenSUSE Slowroll (latest upgrade as of today) with Sway WM (the openSUSEway pattern)

Infos about my system:

https://pastebin.com/HkCBwSBi___

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Maybe the wifi card your laptop is too old for new gen wifi routers (n, ac, ad, ax, 6E). I've seen that with old Dell laptops.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

lspci shows Realtek RTL8852AE which is a Wifi6 (ax) adapter, It may not support the latest standard but I don't think it's that old.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

You could always try to "downgrade" the wifi to b/g/n on uour roiter and see if it works then.

[–] 9tr6gyp3 4 points 6 months ago

I have this issue occasionally when my laptop tries to use WPA3 to connect. Even with the correct password, it fails to set up.

Try verifying or manually setting it to use WPA2 Personal.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Do u have installed gnome-keyring or kwallet and running it on the system? Also from know cases,nm-applet should installed and executed. https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=246698

[–] lal309 2 points 6 months ago

I also had weird problems connecting to wireless before, turns out the wireless on my machine could only connect to 2.4 ghz wireless but the routers I couldn’t connect to were 5 ghz. Just something else to check. Quite possibly due to the card being too old.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

This sounds like the same issue I went into on my old account multiple times: @[email protected]

Edit: found my comment on it: https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]/t/716519/-/comment/4237782

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Link is not working

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I have no idea what "QR Reading online" means but you may like Decoder from Flathub, a rust QR code scanner using portals, great app.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Have a look at this section from the Arch wiki. It fixed some problems I had connecting to certain WiFi networks. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Network_configuration/Wireless#Respecting_the_regulatory_domain