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