[CentOS] Centos6.5 -- Broadcom BCM4313 -- having trouble connecting

Thu Dec 19 11:23:21 UTC 2013
wwp <subscript at free.fr>

Hello Johan,


On Thu, 19 Dec 2013 12:08:17 +0100 Johan Vermeulen <jvermeulen at cawdekempen.be> wrote:

> Dear All,
> 
> I'm having trouble on 2 laptops Lenovo B580 since upgrading to Centos6.5.
> ( Because it's a Lenovo I cannot switch the network card for a better 
> supported network card. )
> 
> There on the latest kernel :
> 
> root at jac network-scripts]# uname -a
> Linux jac.cawdekempen 2.6.32-431.1.2.0.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Dec 13 
> 13:06:13 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> 
> 
> With the help of the Elrepo Broadcom page I got the driver and that part 
> works fine.
> The network card works :
> 
> # vi /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules
> # PCI device 0x14e4:0x4727 (wl)
> SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", 
> ATTR{address}=="c0:14:3d:c1:f6:ef", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", 
> NAME="eth1"
> 
> # uname -a
> eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr C0:14:3D:C1:F6:EF
>            inet6 addr: fe80::c214:3dff:fec1:f6ef/64 Scope:Link
>            UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>            RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:651
>            TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>            collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>            RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
>            Interrupt:17
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> But I cannot connect to any wireless network with neither of the machines.
> 
> I click on the gnome-nm-applet and type in the password.
> 
> [root at jac network-scripts]# tail -f /var/log/messages
> Dec 19 11:10:17 jac NetworkManager[2148]: <info> Config: added 
> 'scan_ssid' value '1'
> Dec 19 11:10:17 jac NetworkManager[2148]: <info> Config: added 
> 'key_mgmt' value 'WPA-PSK'
> Dec 19 11:10:17 jac NetworkManager[2148]: <info> Config: added 'psk' 
> value '<omitted>'
> Dec 19 11:10:17 jac NetworkManager[2148]: <info> Config: added 'group' 
> value 'TKIP CCMP'
> Dec 19 11:10:17 jac NetworkManager[2148]: <info> Activation (eth1) Stage 
> 2 of 5 (Device Configure) complete.
> Dec 19 11:10:17 jac NetworkManager[2148]: <info> Config: set interface 
> ap_scan to 1
> Dec 19 11:10:17 jac NetworkManager[2148]: <info> (eth1): supplicant 
> connection state:  inactive -> scanning
> Dec 19 11:10:18 jac NetworkManager[2148]: <info> (eth1): supplicant 
> connection state:  scanning -> associating
> Dec 19 11:10:28 jac NetworkManager[2148]: <info> (eth1): supplicant 
> connection state:  associating -> disconnected
> Dec 19 11:10:28 jac NetworkManager[2148]: <info> (eth1): supplicant 
> connection state:  disconnected -> scanning
> Dec 19 11:10:29 jac NetworkManager[2148]: <info> (eth1): supplicant 
> connection state:  scanning -> associating
> Dec 19 11:10:39 jac NetworkManager[2148]: <info> (eth1): supplicant 
> connection state:  associating -> disconnected
> Dec 19 11:10:39 jac NetworkManager[2148]: <info> (eth1): supplicant 
> connection state:  disconnected -> scanning
> Dec 19 11:10:40 jac NetworkManager[2148]: <info> (eth1): supplicant 
> connection state:  scanning -> associating
> Dec 19 11:10:42 jac NetworkManager[2148]: <warn> Activation 
> (eth1/wireless): association took too long.
> Dec 19 11:10:42 jac NetworkManager[2148]: <info> (eth1): device state 
> change: 5 -> 6 (reason 0)
> Dec 19 11:10:42 jac NetworkManager[2148]: <warn> Activation 
> (eth1/wireless): asking for new secrets
> Dec 19 11:10:42 jac NetworkManager[2148]: <warn> Couldn't disconnect 
> supplicant interface: Method "Disconnect" with signature "" on interface 
> "fi.epitest.hostap.WPASupplicant.Interface" doesn't exist#012.
> Dec 19 11:10:42 jac NetworkManager[2148]: <warn> Couldn't disconnect 
> supplicant interface: Method "Disconnect" with signature "" on interface 
> "fi.epitest.hostap.WPASupplicant.Interface" doesn't exist#012.
> Dec 19 11:10:42 jac NetworkManager[2148]: <info> (eth1): supplicant 
> connection state:  associating -> disconnected
> Dec 19 11:10:43 jac NetworkManager[2148]: <info> (eth1): device state 
> change: 6 -> 9 (reason 7)
> Dec 19 11:10:43 jac NetworkManager[2148]: <warn> Activation (eth1) 
> failed for access point (Clive)
> Dec 19 11:10:43 jac NetworkManager[2148]: <info> Marking connection 
> 'Auto Clive' invalid.
> Dec 19 11:10:43 jac NetworkManager[2148]: <warn> Activation (eth1) failed.
> Dec 19 11:10:43 jac NetworkManager[2148]: <info> (eth1): device state 
> change: 9 -> 3 (reason 0)
> Dec 19 11:10:43 jac NetworkManager[2148]: <info> (eth1): deactivating 
> device (reason: 0).
> 
> googling for "centos6 WPASupplicant.Interface" doesn't exist#012" I 
> found this bug:
> 
> http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=5834
> 
> 
> could this be the same issue?

Got the exact same problem after upgrading to CentOS 6.5, and I was not
the only one. The archives of this ML would bring you help, check the
thread I started:
  Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 10:26:19 +0100
  From: wwp <subscript at free.fr>
  To: centos at centos.org
  Subject: [CentOS] Upgrade to CentOS 6.5 -> issue with Broadcom Wifi

As suggested by contributors here, and as written at http://elrepo.org/tiki/wl-kmod,
I ended up installing the latest available driver by building the RPM
from the archive of the sources. The procedure is described at the link
above.


Regards,

-- 
wwp
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