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    • fireodoF
      fireodo @mrkaban
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      @mrkaban said in Wi-Fi: laptop yes, phone no:

      Here's what appears after trying to connect from your phone:

      I see there:

      EAPOL-Key timeout

      and I interprete that like the Authentication is not coming from your device - is that smartphone logging in correctly in a other access point?

      Kettop Mi4300YL CPU: i5-4300Y @ 1.60GHz RAM: 8GB Ethernet Ports: 4
      SSD: SanDisk pSSD-S2 16GB (ZFS) WiFi: WLE200NX
      pfsense 2.7.2 CE
      Packages: Apcupsd Cron Iftop Iperf LCDproc Nmap pfBlockerNG RRD_Summary Shellcmd Snort Speedtest System_Patches.

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      • stephenw10S
        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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        Also I assume if you login from the laptop the logs look the same as we see?

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          mrkaban @stephenw10
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          @stephenw10 said in Wi-Fi: laptop yes, phone no:

          Also I assume if you login from the laptop the logs look the same as we see?

          It connects to all other Wi-fi points from the phone without problems.

          This is what I see when I connect from my laptop:

          alt text

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          • stephenw10S
            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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            Possible the phone is restricted to WPA3 only? Other APs you tested against are WPA2?

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              mrkaban @stephenw10
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              @stephenw10 said in Wi-Fi: laptop yes, phone no:

              Possible the phone is restricted to WPA3 only? Other APs you tested against are WPA2?

              Currently connected to a wireless network with WPA2-PSK

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              • stephenw10S
                stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                @fireodo said in Wi-Fi: laptop yes, phone no:

                rtl8192ce

                What driver is that using? rtwn(4)? Is that USB or PCI connected?

                What does sysctl dev.rtwn.0.hwcrypto show?

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                  mrkaban @stephenw10
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                  @stephenw10 said in Wi-Fi: laptop yes, phone no:

                  sysctl dev.rtwn.0.hwcrypto

                  If you run "Diagnostics \ Command Prompt" here, then the output:

                  dev.rtwn.0.hwcrypto: 1

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                  • stephenw10S
                    stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                    Hmm, well I don't think that hardware crypto applies to WPA2 but try disabling that with:
                    sysctl dev.rtwn.0.hwcrypto=0

                    Unclear if that applies immediately.

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                      mrkaban @stephenw10
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                      @stephenw10 said in Wi-Fi: laptop yes, phone no:

                      Hmm, well I don't think that hardware crypto applies to WPA2 but try disabling that with:
                      sysctl dev.rtwn.0.hwcrypto=0

                      Unclear if that applies immediately.

                      Completed, the output was:

                      sysctl: oid 'dev.rtwn.0.hwcrypto' is a read only tunable
                      sysctl: Tunable values are set in /boot/loader.conf

                      Of course I rebooted and tried. And only after the failure did I read what exactly he was writing.

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                      • stephenw10S
                        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                        Yup run: echo dev.rtwn.0.hwcrypto=0 >> /boot/loader.conf.local

                        Then reboot.

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                          mrkaban @stephenw10
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                          @stephenw10 said in Wi-Fi: laptop yes, phone no:

                          Yup run: echo dev.rtwn.0.hwcrypto=0 >> /boot/loader.conf.local

                          Then reboot.

                          As before, it does not pass authentication. He says that the password is incorrect, but it is definitely correct.

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                          • stephenw10S
                            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                            Running sysctl dev.rtwn.0.hwcrypto shows it's correctly disabled?

                            Hmm, I didn't really expect that make any difference in WPA2 unless it had a broken AES/TKIP implementation perhaps.

                            Do you have an older Android you could test with? I'm not aware of any particular issue with Android 14 but I don't have a device to test with right now.

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                              mrkaban @stephenw10
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                              @stephenw10 said in Wi-Fi: laptop yes, phone no:

                              Running sysctl dev.rtwn.0.hwcrypto shows it's correctly disabled?

                              Hmm, I didn't really expect that make any difference in WPA2 unless it had a broken AES/TKIP implementation perhaps.

                              Do you have an older Android you could test with? I'm not aware of any particular issue with Android 14 but I don't have a device to test with right now.

                              I don't have it on my hands, but I'll try to find it and check it out.

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                                mrkaban @stephenw10
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                                @stephenw10 said in Wi-Fi: laptop yes, phone no:

                                Running sysctl dev.rtwn.0.hwcrypto shows it's correctly disabled?

                                Hmm, I didn't really expect that make any difference in WPA2 unless it had a broken AES/TKIP implementation perhaps.

                                Do you have an older Android you could test with? I'm not aware of any particular issue with Android 14 but I don't have a device to test with right now.

                                You're right, it connects to android 4 phones without any problems. There are problems with Android 13 and 14 from different manufacturers. What can I try to do?

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                                • stephenw10S
                                  stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                                  Hmm, well that seem like a clue. Perhaps some deprecated cypher is preventing it? I'm not sure how you might change that though. Can you test with anything else? An iOS device perhaps?

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                                    mrkaban @stephenw10
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                                    @stephenw10 said in Wi-Fi: laptop yes, phone no:

                                    Hmm, well that seem like a clue. Perhaps some deprecated cypher is preventing it? I'm not sure how you might change that though. Can you test with anything else? An iOS device perhaps?

                                    To be honest, it was difficult to get a phone with android 4. I can check on another laptop. iOS probably won't be available.

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                                    • stephenw10S
                                      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                                      Did you try setting 'WPA Pairwise' to TKIP or both instead of AES?

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                                        mrkaban @stephenw10
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                                        @stephenw10 said in Wi-Fi: laptop yes, phone no:

                                        Did you try setting 'WPA Pairwise' to TKIP or both instead of AES?

                                        Yes... It didn't help...

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                                          mrkaban
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                                          Thanks friends for trying to help! As a result, I spat and installed another distribution that is not a fork of pfSense and wi-fi works perfectly on all devices. This means that the problem was not with the device, but with pfSense or freebsd itself. It is a pity that it was not possible to make friends with pfsense wi-fi.

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                                          • stephenw10S
                                            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                                            The confirms it's a not a hardware issue at least. Which makes sense since the WPA auth should all be in software.

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