When I try to ssh from my KaOS laptop to a server on my network it seems to hang, nothing happens ... no prompt for password. After 2 minutes it times out and returns to the shell prompt

  • There is no firewall active on the laptop or server
  • The ssh clients on other hosts on the network connect to the same server and required no special configuration so to do.
  • The journal on the server reports an authentication timeout

I'm running out of ideas 🤫, maybe something to do with PAM? Anyone else seen this?

Not clear what the issue is, connecting to servers through ssh is done constantly here (though not on a local network most of the time, usually to servers in other countries). Even debugging ISOs in Live mode is no issue through ssh (that IS done on a local network).

Maybe the LAMP doc will help some:
https://kaosx.us/docs/lamp/
https://kaosx.us/docs/lamp/#configure-ssh

Thanks for the info @demm .

I've now discovered that it works OK if I connect the laptop via Ethernet 🤫, so the problem seems to be associated with the WiFi, but it appears to be working fine for everything else.

Further discovery: I temporarily installed KDE Neon user edition on the same laptop and ssh worked fine. Reinstalling KaOS, the problem persists.

This seems to rule out any possibility that it's associated with the WiFi access point/router.

The fact that it works on KaOS using Ethernet makes me wonder if the problem is with the Broadcom B43 WiFi driver. Could that be significantly different between KaOS and Neon? I'll let you know if I find anything.

Well... I found the package "broadcom-wl" which I understand is a driver released by Broadcom under a restrictive license. Installed that and all seems good now 🙄