[GENTOO] given up on wifi(solved)
[GENTOO] given up on wifi(solved)
Solved: thanks to u/[email protected]; remember to add these USE flags to wpa_supplicant
net-wireless/wpa_supplicant wps wep ap fasteap eap-sim tkip uncommon-eap-types
I am facing this peculiar issue that i can connect to every WiFi connection except my router, it's a recent gentoo install with no display server, i am using a D-link WiFi USB card
What I have tried:
- using
iw dev (device) scanto list the ssid and try connecting with wpa_supplicant- dhcpcd waits for connection then times out (does connect succesfully to my phones hotspot)
- gave up and spent 3 hours compiling NetworkManager
- every ssid shows up in
nmcli dev wifi listexcept my router - forcing a connection passing bssid shows id not found
- manually setting the connection using
nmcli addalso does not work iw dev (device) scanlists my routers ssid along with others- nothing is blocked in NetworkManager and I spent hours going back and forth with chatgpt trying to force a connection to no avail
- every ssid shows up in
- tried changing router setting(including changing broadcasting channels verifying, black lists etc)
What i have ruled out
- its not the dlink wifi card or the laptop, I can connect to my router just fine using nmcli in a live fedora instance on the same laptop
I have tried every conceivable thing and I cant find what the issue is, it's like my router and Gentoo have some bad blood between them
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- What is the exact model or chipset on the card?
- Have you confirmed it works on other liveusb distros?
- Is your network using WPA3 by chance?
- DWA-131: RTL8192EU
- it also works on my pop-os system
- no it was using WPA/WPA2, I changed it to use WPA2 only
Then it sounds like a config or version issue with your networking stack. The driver and hardware is fine, and if that same card works fine on another machine, then your network stack is missing something.
If you really want to keep trying with this distro, get some debug logs for us to look at.
it works fine with literally, anyother wifi accesspoint, do you have any tips on waht I should do for the relevant logs to show up? I dont have journalctl but would dmesg work fine?
https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/NetworkManager/Debugging
Just a simple command to change logging level to debugging should do it. Make sure to change it back though!
Also, make sure you try different USB ports on whatever this machine is. There may be interference depending on where you're plugging this in.