[Discuss] wireless problem

[jdm at moylan.us (dan moylan)]

dan ritter writes:
> On Tue, Jan 01, 2013 at 11:42:33AM -0500, dan moylan wrote:
> >
> > running lubuntu 12.04 on asus eepc, and just noticed the
> > wireless is no longer working.  running NetworkManager fails to
> > provide a connection.  dmesg shows the following.  how does
> > one find out what reason 2 is?
> >
> > [  393.547703] wlan0: authenticate with 1c:af:f7:d7:0d:03 (try 1)
> > [  393.554234] wlan0: authenticated
> > [  393.574368] wlan0: associate with 1c:af:f7:d7:0d:03 (try 1)
> > [  393.578973] wlan0: RX ReassocResp from 1c:af:f7:d7:0d:03 (capab=0x431 status=0 aid=3)
> > [  393.578990] wlan0: associated
> > [  396.584883] wlan0: deauthenticated from 1c:af:f7:d7:0d:03 (Reason: 2)
> > [  396.600786] cfg80211: All devices are disconnected, going to restore regulatory settings
> > [  396.600812] cfg80211: Restoring regulatory settings
> > [  396.600833] cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain
> > [  396.619097] cfg80211: Ignoring regulatory request Set by core since the driver uses its own custom regulatory domain
>
> reason 2 is no authorization. Are you using wpa or another
> passwording scheme?

don't really know.  however, i noticee that wpa_supplicant
is running, though there is no wlan0 socket at
/var/run/wpa_supplicant as there is on my other machine
running xubuntu 12.04.  have no idea how to proceed.

tia,
ole dan

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