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wlan0: authentication with <mac address> timed out

Started by giljaniz, 30 May 2019 20:33
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#1 giljaniz

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Posted 30 May 2019 - 20:33

Hi,

 

I am relatively new to these forums and I have a Vu+ Solo 4k box flashed with openpli 7 build 20190527. The issue I am encountering is that the wifi interface is not connecting to my network and tailing the /var/log/messages I noticed a lot of such alarms:

 

May 30 21:28:30 vusolo4k user.info kernel: [  650.738224] wlan0: authenticate with fc:ec:da:4f:8c:97
May 30 21:28:30 vusolo4k user.info kernel: [  650.784553] wlan0: direct probe to fc:ec:da:4f:8c:97 (try 1/3)
May 30 21:28:30 vusolo4k user.info kernel: [  650.999177] wlan0: direct probe to fc:ec:da:4f:8c:97 (try 2/3)
May 30 21:28:31 vusolo4k user.info kernel: [  651.209210] wlan0: direct probe to fc:ec:da:4f:8c:97 (try 3/3)
May 30 21:28:31 vusolo4k user.info kernel: [  651.419170] wlan0: authentication with fc:ec:da:4f:8c:97 timed out
May 30 21:30:02 vusolo4k user.info kernel: [  743.067921] wlan0: authenticate with fc:ec:da:4f:90:d8
May 30 21:30:02 vusolo4k user.info kernel: [  743.114058] wlan0: direct probe to fc:ec:da:4f:90:d8 (try 1/3)
May 30 21:30:03 vusolo4k user.info kernel: [  743.328681] wlan0: direct probe to fc:ec:da:4f:90:d8 (try 2/3)
May 30 21:30:03 vusolo4k user.info kernel: [  743.538620] wlan0: direct probe to fc:ec:da:4f:90:d8 (try 3/3)
May 30 21:30:03 vusolo4k user.info kernel: [  743.748590] wlan0: authentication with fc:ec:da:4f:90:d8 timed out
 
root@vusolo4k:/etc/modprobe.d# uname -a
Linux vusolo4k 3.14.28-1.8 #1 SMP Thu Jan 10 19:23:21 CET 2019 armv7l GNU/Linux
 
 
Any ideas what could be the root cause?
 
Thanks

Re: wlan0: authentication with <mac address> timed out #2 WanWizard

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Posted 31 May 2019 - 09:41

It usually is a signal that it sees the AP, but the signal is too weak to properly connect to it.


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Re: wlan0: authentication with <mac address> timed out #3 giljaniz

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Posted 31 May 2019 - 15:02

It shouldn't be the case as the AP is in the same room as the box.

Re: wlan0: authentication with <mac address> timed out #4 WanWizard

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Posted 31 May 2019 - 15:11

That doesn't necessarily say anything.

 

The box hasn't got an external antenna, so it is very sensitive to positioning and interference. Also, an AP dynamically tunes down based on the weakest device connected, mobile phones are very notorious due to their weak transmitters.


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Re: wlan0: authentication with <mac address> timed out #5 giljaniz

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Posted 31 May 2019 - 21:15

Thanks for your feedback but I checked the Signal level using iwlist in scanning mode and the SSID has a signal level of -29dbm, which should be sufficient to connect.


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