[SOLVED] Wireless auto-connect not working

Hi!
I'm really new to Linux in general, so I've spent a few hours trying to figure this out (searching the forums, etc) but haven't had any success.
When I first installed Arch, everything seemed to work fine. It would automatically connect to my home wireless (after enabling net-auto-wireless in sytemctl). I went to a local library, and connected to their wifi. After rebooting at the library I noticed that it didn't connect automatically to the library network. I wasn't sure if I had done something wrong or if I had just failed to set something up... but then it also would not automatically connect at home now.
I have to use wifi-menu every time I reboot. I ran systemctl and saw this:
systemctl failed list:
UNIT LOAD ACTIVE SUB DESCRIPTION
net-auto-wireless.service loaded failed failed Provides automatic netcfg wireless connection
netcfg.service loaded failed failed Netcfg multi-profile daemon
LOAD = Reflects whether the unit definition was properly loaded.
ACTIVE = The high-level unit activation state, i.e. generalization of SUB.
SUB = The low-level unit activation state, values depend on unit type.
2 loaded units listed. Pass --all to see loaded but inactive units, too.
To show all installed unit files use 'systemctl list-unit-files'.
netcfg status:
netcfg.service - Netcfg multi-profile daemon
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/netcfg.service; enabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sat 2013-02-09 17:33:33 EST; 4min 53s ago
Process: 253 ExecStart=/usr/bin/netcfg-daemon start (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Feb 09 17:33:33 arch netcfg-daemon[253]: No recorded netcfg state to restore
net-auto-wireless status:
net-auto-wireless.service - Provides automatic netcfg wireless connection
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/net-auto-wireless.service; enabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sat 2013-02-09 17:33:34 EST; 4min 56s ago
Process: 252 ExecStart=/usr/bin/netcfg-wpa_actiond $WIRELESS_INTERFACE (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Feb 09 17:33:33 arch netcfg-wpa_actiond[252]: wlan0-
Feb 09 17:33:33 arch netcfg-wpa_actiond[252]: wlan0-BELL369
Feb 09 17:33:33 arch netcfg-wpa_actiond[252]: Successfully initialized wpa_supplicant
Feb 09 17:33:33 arch netcfg-wpa_actiond[252]: Line 11: Invalid passphrase length 0 (expected: 8..63) '"'.
Feb 09 17:33:33 arch netcfg-wpa_actiond[252]: Line 11: failed to parse psk '""'.
Feb 09 17:33:33 arch netcfg-wpa_actiond[252]: Line 13: failed to parse network block.
Feb 09 17:33:33 arch netcfg-wpa_actiond[252]: Failed to read or parse configuration '/run/network/wpa.wlan0/wpa.conf'.
Feb 09 17:33:34 arch systemd[1]: net-auto-wireless.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1
Feb 09 17:33:34 arch systemd[1]: Failed to start Provides automatic netcfg wireless connection.
Feb 09 17:33:34 arch systemd[1]: Unit net-auto-wireless.service entered failed state
Any idea what I might have done or what's happening? I hate feeling helpless, but I'm not sure what to look into to resolve my problem.
Thanks!
Last edited by trthatch (2013-02-10 02:09:41)

bohoomil wrote:Seems like your config file(s) is corrupted somehow... Assuming you have a default netcfg profile to be loaded at system startup, what happens if you try and load it manually? Do you get similar error messages?
Everything should be pretty standard. All I've done is follow instructions in the (complete) beginners guide.
I haven't added any default profiles... so I'm not sure about my default profile. There's a "wlan0-" entry in addition to the library network and home network profiles... but it's empty.
When I use
netcfg wlan0-
it says WPA Authentication/Association failed... but it's an empty profile so I wouldn't expect it to do anything.
My local network is BELL369. When I used
netcfg wlan0-BELL369
it gave no errors and my wireless worked fine.
If the configuration files are corrupted, how would I replace them?
This is the contents of my netcfg conf file:
# Enable these netcfg profiles at boot time.
# - prefix an entry with a '@' to background its startup
# - set to 'last' to restore the profiles running at the last shutdown
# - set to 'menu' to present a menu (requires the dialog package)
# Network profiles are found in /etc/network.d
NETWORKS=(last)
# Specify the name of your wired interface for net-auto-wired
WIRED_INTERFACE="eth0"
# Specify the name of your wireless interface for net-auto-wireless
WIRELESS_INTERFACE="wlan0"
# Array of profiles that may be started by net-auto-wireless.
# When not specified, all wireless profiles are considered.
#AUTO_PROFILES=("profile1" "profile2")

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