[SOLVED] Netcfg and Wireless connections stopped working

Question

I've been using Netcfg for a while now on my laptop and I've had no problems connecting to the internet until last week. Since the last pacman update I did (around Wednesday I believe) my laptop has not been able to connect to the internet again. It doesn't recognize my wireless interface even though it did before, and netcfg gives me a strange output when I try to connect to my network and tells me the network is not available. I've gone through the steps in the wiki about installing wireless drivers and I've redone that but it still does not work.
Here is what Netcfg gives me when I try to connect:
:: LosPin up [BUSY]
nl80211: 'nl80211' generic netlink not found
ioctl[SIOCSIWMODE]: Operation not supported
ioctl[SIOCGIWRANGE]: Operation not supported
ioctl[SIOCGIWMODE]: Operation not supported
ioctl[SIOCSIWAP]: Operation not supported
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Operation not supported
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODE]: Operation not supported
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Operation not supported
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODE]: Operation not supported
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Operation not supported
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODE]: Operation not supported
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Operation not supported
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODE]: Operation not supported
> Wireless network "LosPin" not present.
[FAIL]
I know the network is present because when I boot into Windows on this same laptop it connects without any issues. I think it is a driver issue but re-installing the driver has not helped so I'm wondering if anyone can help me out.
This is my netcfg profile if needed:
CONNECTION="wireless"
ESSID="LosPin"
INTERFACE="eth0"
SCAN="yes"
TIMEOUT="10"
SECURITY="wpa"
KEY=
WPA_Driver='wext'
IP='static'
ADDR='10.0.0.80'
GATEWAY='10.0.0.1'
DNS='10.0.0.1'
The reason that the interface is set to eth0 is because it is the only interface for which netcfg tries to connect to the network. If I use wlan0 as the interface it tells me it doesn't exist, and before I had the problem, the interface I used was eth1, which now netcfg says does not exist either.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Last edited by Hoest (2011-11-17 23:32:29)

Answer 1

I've checked and it's definitely not an rfkill issue. I've tried to connect to the network with two different netcfg profiles, one using wpa_supplicant and the other with configsection. Both give me the same "WPA Authentication/Association Failed" error. There was one try with the wpa_supplicant profile that gave the a "network not found" error but afterwards it went back to the original error. Here are my profiles if needed.
configsection profile:
CONNECTION='wireless'
INTERFACE='eth0'
SECURITY='wpa-configsection'
ESSID='LosPin'
IP='dhcp'
TIMEOUT='130'
CONFIGSECTION='
ssid="LosPin"
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
psk="..."'
wpa_supplicant profile:
CONNECTION="wireless"
INTERFACE="eth0"
TIMEOUT="60"
WPA_Driver='wext'
IP='dhcp'
SECURITY='wpa-config'
WPA_CONF='/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf'
And this is my wpa_supplicant.conf:
ctrl_interface=DIR=/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=wheel
network={
ssid="LosPin"
proto=RSN
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
pairwise=CCMP TKIP
group=CCMP TKIP
#psk="..."
psk=84e710904340353a5217eb63ced7e8f4beb38bf6317bf4648e8b4557c7f3442d
Again, thank you all for all your help.