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

Thu Dec 19 11:38:45 UTC 2013
Johan Vermeulen <jvermeulen at cawdekempen.be>

op 19-12-13 12:23, wwp schreef:
> 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,
>
Hello,

thanks for the reply.

I did build the driver, using 
wl-kmod-6_30_223_141-2.el6.elrepo.nosrc.rpm 
<http://elrepo.org/linux/elrepo/el6/SRPMS/wl-kmod-6_30_223_141-2.el6.elrepo.nosrc.rpm> 
and hybrid-v35_64-nodebug-pcoem-6_30_223_141.tar.gz
This resulted in kmod-wl-6_30_223_141-2.el6.local.x86_64.rpm
which I hope is the latest.

This results in a working network card, so that part went fine.

I guess the wpa_supplicant is maybe a different issue.

Greetings, J.