Connection Activation Failed
I am having an issue with network manager when creating a hotspot on my device. After some troubleshooting I was able to narrow the issue down to setting WPA3 as the encryption protocol. On WPA2 the hotspot works without issue. I'm not sure if this is a hardware limitation on my device or there is some other issue. There is no warning when setting WPA3 in nm-connection-editor
.
Thanks for the help!
I generally use nmcli
to start the hotspot via nmcli con up hotspot
it fails with the error: Error: Connection activation failed: 802.1X supplicant took too long to authenticate
Here are the error logs:
Oct 30 16:27:26 localhost.localdomain NetworkManager[1074]: <info> [1604096846.2963] device (wlp2s0): supplicant interface state: completed -> disconnected
Oct 30 16:27:26 localhost.localdomain NetworkManager[1074]: <info> [1604096846.2967] device (wlp2s0): state change: deactivating -> disconnected (reason 'new-activation', sys-iface-state: 'managed')
Oct 30 16:27:26 localhost.localdomain NetworkManager[1074]: <info> [1604096846.3013] dhcp4 (wlp2s0): canceled DHCP transaction
Oct 30 16:27:26 localhost.localdomain NetworkManager[1074]: <info> [1604096846.3013] dhcp4 (wlp2s0): state changed bound -> done
Oct 30 16:27:26 localhost.localdomain NetworkManager[1074]: <info> [1604096846.3017] dhcp6 (wlp2s0): canceled DHCP transaction
Oct 30 16:27:26 localhost.localdomain NetworkManager[1074]: <info> [1604096846.3017] dhcp6 (wlp2s0): state changed bound -> done
Oct 30 16:27:26 localhost.localdomain NetworkManager[1074]: <info> [1604096846.3064] device (wlp2s0): set-hw-addr: set MAC address to XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX (scanning)
Oct 30 16:27:26 localhost.localdomain NetworkManager[1074]: <info> [1604096846.3171] device (wlp2s0): Activation: starting connection 'h1me' (bfb01038-825b-483e-af4e-ce0cee709692)
Oct 30 16:27:26 localhost.localdomain NetworkManager[1074]: <info> [1604096846.3414] device (wlp2s0): state change: disconnected -> prepare (reason 'none', sys-iface-state: 'managed')
Oct 30 16:27:26 localhost.localdomain NetworkManager[1074]: <info> [1604096846.3440] device (wlp2s0): set-hw-addr: reset MAC address to XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX (preserve)
Oct 30 16:27:26 localhost.localdomain NetworkManager[1074]: <info> [1604096846.3465] device (wlp2s0): state change: prepare -> config (reason 'none', sys-iface-state: 'managed')
Oct 30 16:27:26 localhost.localdomain NetworkManager[1074]: <info> [1604096846.3468] device (wlp2s0): Activation: (wifi) access point 'h1me' has security, but secrets are required.
Oct 30 16:27:26 localhost.localdomain NetworkManager[1074]: <info> [1604096846.3470] device (wlp2s0): state change: config -> need-auth (reason 'none', sys-iface-state: 'managed')
Oct 30 16:27:26 localhost.localdomain NetworkManager[1074]: <info> [1604096846.3511] device (wlp2s0): state change: need-auth -> prepare (reason 'none', sys-iface-state: 'managed')
Oct 30 16:27:26 localhost.localdomain NetworkManager[1074]: <info> [1604096846.3518] device (wlp2s0): state change: prepare -> config (reason 'none', sys-iface-state: 'managed')
Oct 30 16:27:26 localhost.localdomain NetworkManager[1074]: <info> [1604096846.3520] device (wlp2s0): Activation: (wifi) connection 'h1me' has security, and secrets exist. No new secrets needed.
Oct 30 16:27:51 localhost.localdomain NetworkManager[1074]: <warn> [1604096871.9017] device (wlp2s0): Activation: (wifi) Hotspot network creation took too long, failing activation
Oct 30 16:27:51 localhost.localdomain NetworkManager[1074]: <info> [1604096871.9018] device (wlp2s0): state change: config -> failed (reason 'supplicant-timeout', sys-iface-state: 'managed')
Oct 30 16:27:51 localhost.localdomain NetworkManager[1074]: <warn> [1604096871.9040] device (wlp2s0): Activation: failed for connection 'h1me'
Oct 30 16:27:51 localhost.localdomain NetworkManager[1074]: <info> [1604096871.9077] device (wlp2s0): state change: failed -> disconnected (reason 'none', sys-iface-state: 'managed')
Oct 30 16:27:51 localhost.localdomain NetworkManager[1074]: <info> [1604096871.9139] device (wlp2s0): set-hw-addr: set MAC address to XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX (scanning)
Oct 30 16:27:51 localhost.localdomain NetworkManager[1074]: <info> [1604096871.9353] device (wlp2s0): supplicant interface state: disconnected -> inactive
Oct 30 16:27:56 localhost.localdomain NetworkManager[1074]: <info> [1604096876.3786] device (wlp2s0): Activation: starting connection 'h0me' (c16add6c-9172-4790-9b2f-fb1d74aaea47)
Oct 30 16:27:56 localhost.localdomain NetworkManager[1074]: <info> [1604096876.3788] device (wlp2s0): state change: disconnected -> prepare (reason 'none', sys-iface-state: 'managed')
Oct 30 16:27:56 localhost.localdomain NetworkManager[1074]: <info> [1604096876.3839] device (wlp2s0): set-hw-addr: reset MAC address to XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX (preserve)
Oct 30 16:27:56 localhost.localdomain NetworkManager[1074]: <info> [1604096876.3872] device (wlp2s0): state change: prepare -> config (reason 'none', sys-iface-state: 'managed')
Oct 30 16:27:56 localhost.localdomain NetworkManager[1074]: <info> [1604096876.3877] device (wlp2s0): Activation: (wifi) access point 'h0me' has security, but secrets are required.
Oct 30 16:27:56 localhost.localdomain NetworkManager[1074]: <info> [1604096876.3878] device (wlp2s0): state change: config -> need-auth (reason 'none', sys-iface-state: 'managed')
Oct 30 16:27:56 localhost.localdomain NetworkManager[1074]: <info> [1604096876.4321] device (wlp2s0): supplicant interface state: inactive -> disconnected
Oct 30 16:27:56 localhost.localdomain NetworkManager[1074]: <info> [1604096876.4323] device (wlp2s0): supplicant interface state: disconnected -> inactive
Oct 30 16:27:56 localhost.localdomain NetworkManager[1074]: <info> [1604096876.4346] device (wlp2s0): state change: need-auth -> prepare (reason 'none', sys-iface-state: 'managed')
Oct 30 16:27:56 localhost.localdomain NetworkManager[1074]: <info> [1604096876.4351] device (wlp2s0): state change: prepare -> config (reason 'none', sys-iface-state: 'managed')
Oct 30 16:27:56 localhost.localdomain NetworkManager[1074]: <info> [1604096876.4356] device (wlp2s0): Activation: (wifi) connection 'h0me' has security, and secrets exist. No new secrets needed.
Oct 30 16:27:56 localhost.localdomain NetworkManager[1074]: <info> [1604096876.4521] device (wlp2s0): supplicant interface state: inactive -> scanning
Oct 30 16:28:00 localhost.localdomain NetworkManager[1074]: <info> [1604096880.8841] device (wlp2s0): supplicant interface state: scanning -> authenticating
Oct 30 16:28:00 localhost.localdomain NetworkManager[1074]: <info> [1604096880.9102] device (wlp2s0): supplicant interface state: authenticating -> associating
Oct 30 16:28:00 localhost.localdomain NetworkManager[1074]: <info> [1604096880.9353] device (wlp2s0): supplicant interface state: associating -> completed
Oct 30 16:28:00 localhost.localdomain NetworkManager[1074]: <info> [1604096880.9353] device (wlp2s0): Activation: (wifi) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) successful. Connected to wireless network "h0me"
Oct 30 16:28:00 localhost.localdomain NetworkManager[1074]: <info> [1604096880.9414] device (wlp2s0): state change: config -> ip-config (reason 'none', sys-iface-state: 'managed')
Oct 30 16:28:00 localhost.localdomain NetworkManager[1074]: <info> [1604096880.9418] dhcp4 (wlp2s0): activation: beginning transaction (timeout in 45 seconds)