WiFi : (my) slackware15x64 fails connecting to Xfinity hotspots
by mw.decavia from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6JWPZ)
I have about 10 years experience with slackware. But only 1 month's experience with any kind of WiFi.
I am using a dual-boot win7/slackware15 laptop, with a rtl8812au usb wireless adapter.
From the windows side, it connects to every AP I have tried. Including "Xfinity now wifi pass" with the ssid "xfinitywifi".
After I built the linux driver for rtl8812au from it's github repo, Slackware can connect to every AP *except* "xfinitywifi". Every time I try to connect to xfinity wifi, I get an error message "supplicant took too long to authenticate". I am using networkmanager (nmcli).
Users of other distros tell me they can access xfinity hotspots just fine. But I am not going to blame Slackware - given my inexperience with wifi, it is pretty sure I just have things configured wrong.
If any slackware users can access xfinity wifi, perhaps you could advise me re: your working wifi configs?
Thank you, in advance.
I am using a dual-boot win7/slackware15 laptop, with a rtl8812au usb wireless adapter.
From the windows side, it connects to every AP I have tried. Including "Xfinity now wifi pass" with the ssid "xfinitywifi".
After I built the linux driver for rtl8812au from it's github repo, Slackware can connect to every AP *except* "xfinitywifi". Every time I try to connect to xfinity wifi, I get an error message "supplicant took too long to authenticate". I am using networkmanager (nmcli).
Users of other distros tell me they can access xfinity hotspots just fine. But I am not going to blame Slackware - given my inexperience with wifi, it is pretty sure I just have things configured wrong.
If any slackware users can access xfinity wifi, perhaps you could advise me re: your working wifi configs?
Thank you, in advance.