wi-fi stuck at 'Waiting authorization'

[dex]

Hello,
I've installed kubuntu 11.10 a few days ago, and had troubles setting up my wireless connection. I have an atheros wireless adapter AR928x using ath9k driver. Some more information here:

lshw -C network
 *-network
    description: Wireless interface
    product: AR928X Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express)
    vendor: Atheros Communications Inc.
    physical id: 0
    bus info: pci@0000:09:00.0
    logical name: wlan0
    version: 01
    serial: 00:23:4d:71:48:f6
    width: 64 bits
    clock: 33MHz
    capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
    configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ath9k driverversion=3.0.0-12-generic firmware=N/A latency=0 link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11abgn
    resources: irq:18 memory:d1100000-d110ffff
 *-network
    description: Ethernet interface
    product: RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller
    vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
    physical id: 0
    bus info: pci@0000:0a:00.0
    logical name: eth0
    version: 02
    serial: 00:1e:ec:e3:e1:8e
    size: 10Mbit/s
    capacity: 100Mbit/s
    width: 64 bits
    clock: 33MHz
    capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list rom ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
    configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=half firmware=N/A latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=MII speed=10Mbit/s
    resources: irq:44 ioport:2000(size=256) memory:d1010000-d1010fff memory:d1000000-d100ffff memory:d1020000-d103ffff

nm-tool
NetworkManager Tool

State: disconnected

- Device: wlan0 ----------------------------------------------------------------
 Type:       802.11 WiFi
 Driver:      ath9k
 State:       disconnected
 Default:      no
 HW Address:    00:23:4D:71:48:F6

 Capabilities:

 Wireless Properties
  WEP Encryption: yes
  WPA Encryption: yes
  WPA2 Encryption: yes

 Wireless Access Points 
  hpsetup:     Ad-Hoc, 36:25:B3:FD:13:75, Freq 2437 MHz, Rate 11 Mb/s, Strength 55
  ASUS:      Infra, BC:AE:C5:88:52:3E, Freq 2412 MHz, Rate 54 Mb/s, Strength 70 WEP


- Device: eth0 -----------------------------------------------------------------
 Type:       Wired
 Driver:      r8169
 State:       unavailable
 Default:      no
 HW Address:    00:1E:EC:E3:E1:8E

 Capabilities:
  Carrier Detect: yes
  Speed:      10 Mb/s

 Wired Properties
  Carrier:     off

Please help me out. I've bumped into a forum topic with a similar problem, but didn't understand any of the suggestions. http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3118970.0
As far as I can see, wifi driver is functionable as kubuntu reacts when I switch on/off my antenna.

[sithlord48]

Re: wi-fi stuck at 'Waiting authorization'

try using the manage connections option to manually set a password for the network your trying to connect to . i've seen this before but it usually is when my wifi is going down on the router. do u have another machine to varify the wifi is working correctly since thats alwasy a good place to start on these sort of things.

[dex]

Re: wi-fi stuck at 'Waiting authorization'

Sithlord48, thanks for getting back to me. My ipod toch and my windows partition are doing fine, so the wifi should be working. Where can I find the "manage connections option"?

[dex]

Re: wi-fi stuck at 'Waiting authorization'

Oh I see the "manage connections". My password is set manually.

[claydoh]

Re: wi-fi stuck at 'Waiting authorization'

Sometimes it can help to delete the wifi entry and re-discover it. Right click on the network manager tray icon and look for "manage connections" and delete the entry from there (while disconnected) and try adding it again.

[sithlord48]

Re: wi-fi stuck at 'Waiting authorization'

Sometimes it can help to delete the wifi entry and re-discover it. Right click on the network manager tray icon and look for "manage connections" and delete the entry from there (while disconnected) and try adding it again.

i was just about to suggest that as a next step too. lol

[jeremy1701]

Re: wi-fi stuck at 'Waiting authorization'

Others have reported that you need to remove Wicd and use KNetworkManager instead. Here are the directions for doing that:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1614873

[sithlord48]

Re: wi-fi stuck at 'Waiting authorization'

yes, im not sure about that. i have not used wicd in a LONG time since about kde 4.2. i know that some people have problems with it but on all the machines i take care of (mostly laptops now, think im up to about 20 now..) KNM is working just fine. i travel alot for my job and my netbook has not had any issue connecting to customers networks they have all kinds of encryption some are using G and others using N mode.

[Xenon Sailor]

Re: wi-fi stuck at 'Waiting authorization'

I'm suffering a similar problem - have an Asus Eee PC 1000HE with same wireless card. On updating to 11.10 it takes AGES to recognise a wireless network, up to 30 mins before any show up. Once they do I can connect no problem, until something times out, then I have to start again.
Have tried removing and re-making the connection, but no difference.
Always worked fine in 10.4 (well, except it didn't like open networks much)

[dex]

Re: wi-fi stuck at 'Waiting authorization'

Others have reported that you need to remove Wicd and use KNetworkManager instead. Here are the directions for doing that:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1614873

I tried deleting the wifi entry, and creating it again, no success. Isn't KNetworkManager a default in Kubuntu? Shall I just install it anyway? If yes, do I have to delete anything that stays on its place?

[jeremy1701]

Re: wi-fi stuck at 'Waiting authorization'

Well I'm not sure about KNM being the default.

Are those drivers proprietary? Is there anything in

Launcher>applications>system> additional drivers

Related to your atheros?

[dex]

Re: wi-fi stuck at 'Waiting authorization'

Well I'm not sure about KNM being the default.

Are those drivers proprietary? Is there anything in

Launcher>applications>system> additional drivers

Related to your atheros?

When I open "additional drivers" I get this pop-up window "downloading package indexes failed, please check your status. Most drivers will not be available" When I click on "ok" another window appears where the fields are blank and on top it says "no proprietary drivers are in use on this system"

[jeremy1701]

Re: wi-fi stuck at 'Waiting authorization'

Okay, you won't get anything without wifi. You'll have to connect eth0 via hardwire. Can you do that, get online, and check again?

[dex]

Re: wi-fi stuck at 'Waiting authorization'

Okay, you won't get anything without wifi. You'll have to connect eth0 via hardwire. Can you do that, get online, and check again?

I got online through eth0, took a look at the list of proprietary drivers. Here is what it showed:
"ATI/AMD proprietary FGLRX graphics driver"
"ATI/AMD proprieatry FGLRX graphics driver (post release updates)"
So there are no proprietary network drivers. Any ideas? should I download KNM? or wicd?

[sithlord48]

Re: wi-fi stuck at 'Waiting authorization'

KNM is the default network manager on kubuntu. you can try wicd, but you can only have one or the other so before you remove KNM to install WICD you might want to be sure you have a copy of the deb files incase you need to reinstall (or have access to wired network).

again i seen that waiting for auth issue yesterday but only cause our router had gone down. after it was restarted the connection worked as expected, even auto connected.