WIFI doesn't automatically connect

[Giova84]

I have an atheros wifi card, WPA2 auth method. Every time that I boot Haiku, also if i choose to store the details, i have to manually select my SSID.

syslog attached.

hrev46301

[diver]

Do you need to enter your password after connecting to your SSID?

[Giova84]

No, i don't need to enter again my password. So the keystore_server shouldn't be the culprit.

[Giova84]

I have momentarily solved with the following workaround: Inside UserBootScript i have added

ifconfig /dev/net/atheroswifi/0 join MYSSID

But is only a temporary workaround :-)

[miqlas]

I have the same problem with my Atheros WLAN adapter, the network also WPA2.

Haiku (recent nightly gcc2h) does not ask for password, it just does not connect automatically, so i need to go to the right click menu of NetworkStatus replicant, and select my SSID, then it connectin without problem.

I will try the UserBootScript workaround, but it would be better to locate and eliminate this bug for the new users.

[humdinger]

I does work for my iprowifi4695 after setting the WLAN in the Network preferences. Have you tried that?

[X512]

Still present in hrev53639.

WiFi adapter is [168c:002b] Atheros AR9285.

[JeremyF]

device Network controller [2|80|0]

vendor 168c: Qualcomm Atheros device 0036: QCA9565 / AR9565 Wireless Network Adapter

Problem still exists (hrev55022)

[nephele]

On a hunch... does the SSID that is problematic contain a space? I have noticied that common SSID names with spaces like "FritzBox NNNN" seem to not work for reconnecting, but I have other single name SSID's that do work.

Yesterday I renamed a SSID from the FritzBox NNNN style to a single word name and afterwards the new SSID managed to autoconnect, thus my hunch that this might be related to spaces. (could also explain https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/14043)

[JeremyF]

The SSID has no space. It's a one block "UPCxxxxxxx" (x= numbers)

[6foot3]

Still present in hrev56391. With Haiku starting to look like it's ready for prime time, this should probably be addressed.

[waddlesplash]

Yeah, probably. It's only two clicks to do it manually if you have the password saved, but that's two clicks less than every other OS :)

Likely the entire autoconnect logic needs to be totally scrapped and rewritten. It's never worked for me, anyway.

[nephele]

It works fine for me most of the time, maybe somebody should check how it works first before scrapping it :P

[vidrep]

The problem is still here with hrev56836.

[Luposian]

I added the following to my UserBootScript:

sleep 10; ifconfig /dev/net/realtekwifi/0 join [SSID name] [Passphrase] &

Hopefully this also works for Atheros wifi hardware?

[ilfelice]

FWIW,

This problem is still present in hrev57521.

Wifi device is a USB dongle (RTL8188CUS) at /dev/net/realtekwifi/0.