Authorization Supplicant Timeout on WiFi after a few seconds

Issues & Assistance
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I’m trying Cachy on a new (old) laptop for my son to use. It has been running Ubuntu with no issues, but both with Cachy and Garuda it has this problem. We connect to a network, and after a few seconds it drops, usually with the timeout message above.

WiFi is Qualcomm Atheros QCA9565 / AR9565

Interesting note, we ran the installer over wifi and that worked, though it seemed very slow. If it was having the same issue with the live installer, it was not showing any popup messages about disconnecting. Is the installer running an older kernel or driver?

I tried turning off WiFi power save and adding a bssid. Also a few other things I saw in the forum here with no fix.

Any help is appreciated. I’d really like to set my son up using this and not reverting it back to Ubuntu.

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Random guess, but have you tried using iwd instead of wpa_supplicant? Either standalone or as NetworkManager backend.

Also, I have found a similar problem on a brazillian forum:

https://forum.biglinux.com.br/d/5811-reinstalei-o-novo-biglinux-e-o-wifi-fica-ativando-e-desativando/6

It recommends loading the ath9k driver with the following parameters:

ps_enable=0 btcoex_enable=1

or also with:

nohwcrypt=1
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+1 to using IWD. Less resource overhead (if that’s something you care about) and in my experience it connects faster (never measured, just “feels”).

IWD.

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So, the new April update may have fixed it. Not sure yet, testing, but for the past 10 minutes since the update was applied it seems to be working. I will update this thread either in a few hours if no more issues or sooner if the error returns. I have my son testing with videos from the network media server so there’s constant data flowing and hopefully we spot it easily if the issue returns.

Thank you for the suggestions on a fix–hopefully I don’t have to come back and test them :slight_smile: but I will try if we need to.