wireless not reconnecting after suspend

[g8jvm]

Hi
laptop Dell N5030 , on FC16 x86_64

When booting up, it finds the wireless network without a problem.
But after suspend, closing the lid, I'm repeatedly ased for the password to connect, sometimes it will accept, but often its quicker to reboot.
Is anything known of this problem ?
It has got worse recently and its up to date on updates, so maybe something there.
Ideas or suggestions ?, I have already googled , but not much relevant,

TIA
Richard

---------- Post added at 07:20 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:57 PM ----------

A bit more info.
When returning from hibernation it ntakes at least two manual attemps to login to the wireless network,
but it will eventually connnect. but it takes a long time.

from a suspended period it will not play, its saying needs authentication, but its minutes before a password is requested., and that has no effect, again and again and again.
the wireless router is a good signal, I've tried changing the WPA flavours and still no change.

But my little android phone logs in to the wirless network no matter what I do to it.

This was working , until a recent update, possibly a new kernel, not sure , but its a PITA.

TIA
Richard

---------- Post added at 07:44 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:20 PM ----------

Regressing back to kernel 3,3,0-8 clears the problem !
Culprit lastest kernel ??

[esbennn]

I have been having this same problem for the past few days.
I think it started after i did an update on april 8., but that upgrade didn't seem to contain any network related packages. Like you, i have noticed that it only happens after suspend, not after reboot.

I have also discovered, that if I connect to some other network, it connects fine to that, and then I am once again able to connect to the first (my) network.
Using the laptop as a hotspot like this:

also seems to 'reset' the wireless connection, allowing me to connect to my router afterwards.

Could it be that it's related to something else than networkmanager, say Gnome?

I've checked dmesg and /var/log/messages after errors, but haven't found anything 'useful'.

I too would much appreciate any help on this.

[g8jvm]

I'm finding the problem goes when reverting back to kernel 3.3.0-8, from 3.3.1, that points to the kernel
I think.

[esbennn]

Sounds legit. Damn annoying, though.
Guess we'll just have to wait for a kernel update and see how it turns out.

[Rafal]

Hello
Thank you for this thread. I have just moved from Mandriva to Fedora 16 x86_64 on my Portégé Z830-10H. After updates I started to fight with wireless reconnection problem after suspend or hibernation. I confirm, that going back to previous kernel (from the installation DVD) solve the problem.
Rafal

[loleary]

Has anyone reported this as a bug? I couldn't seem to find a related Bugzilla. Seems like a bad idea to asume the Kernel team or Fedora project will stumble across this thread.
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[g8jvm]

I havn't, the last I put in against a kernel I got flamed for,
It will always be anything else except the kernel.
Unless of course it effects one of the kernel team

Richard

[Dutchy]

Originally Posted by esbennn

I have also discovered, that if I connect to some other network, it connects fine to that, and then I am once again able to connect to the first (my) network.
Using the laptop as a hotspot like this:

Another workaround for Atheros:

# modprobe -r ath9k && modprobe ath9k

[hieronymous]

Hi

See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=810678

[esbennn]

@ Dutchy - thanks for the workaround
@ hieronymous - thanks for posting to bugzilla.

A comment in the bug report states that this should be fixed with kernel 3.3.2.

Can anyone confirm this? 3.3.2 is available in the repo

[hieronymous]

Hi

Yes, kernel 3.3.2 is working for me (ath9k driver).

[esbennn]

Originally Posted by hieronymous

Hi

Yes, kernel 3.3.2 is working for me (ath9k driver).

Awesome, that's god news