Hello evryone, I need help with this annoying problem where I can’t connect to some specific wifi even though I’m entering the correct password.

I went to a coffee house near my in-laws for some alone time where I got this annoying problem again. I was able to connect normally to their wifi (TP VSTM) using my phone but not on my laptop. So I made a QR image of that wifi (on my phone while connecting to it) and read it online (on my laptop) to make sure I’m entering the correct password. I tried connecting using nmtui at first but it kept prompting me to re-enter the password, then using nmcli which showed a message about a secret not provided.

screenshot https://ibb.co/MSqtmPZ

journalctl -b 0 -f -u NetworkManager.service | tee networkmanager.log

The log shows :

Activation: (wifi) asking for new secrets
device (wlp2s0): no secrets: No agents were available for this request.
device (wlp2s0): state change: need-auth -> failed (reason 'no-secrets', sys-iface-state: 'managed')
<info>  [1704445064.8171] manager: NetworkManager state is now DISCONNECTED

but I didn’t get any prompt other than the one asking my root password for connecting.

What I have: I’m running OpenSUSE Slowroll (latest upgrade as of today) with Sway WM (the openSUSEway pattern)

Infos about my system:

https://pastebin.com/HkCBwSBi___

  • currawong@lemmy.ml
    4·
    11 months ago

    Maybe the wifi card your laptop is too old for new gen wifi routers (n, ac, ad, ax, 6E). I’ve seen that with old Dell laptops.

    • mhz@lemm.eeOP
      1·
      11 months ago

      lspci shows Realtek RTL8852AE which is a Wifi6 (ax) adapter, It may not support the latest standard but I don’t think it’s that old.

      • currawong@lemmy.ml
        1·
        11 months ago

        You could always try to “downgrade” the wifi to b/g/n on uour roiter and see if it works then.

  • 9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world
    4·
    11 months ago

    I have this issue occasionally when my laptop tries to use WPA3 to connect. Even with the correct password, it fails to set up.

    Try verifying or manually setting it to use WPA2 Personal.

  • lal309@lemmy.world
    2·
    11 months ago

    I also had weird problems connecting to wireless before, turns out the wireless on my machine could only connect to 2.4 ghz wireless but the routers I couldn’t connect to were 5 ghz. Just something else to check. Quite possibly due to the card being too old.

  • Pantherina@feddit.de
    1·
    11 months ago

    I have no idea what “QR Reading online” means but you may like Decoder from Flathub, a rust QR code scanner using portals, great app.