I was hit by this too.
This is what I understand:
This setting is enabled by default for privacy/security reasons. It
makes connection fail with some HW/drivers due to the drivers
themselves, so the rootcause is not in network-manager itself.
This results in poor user experience for impacted users but the devs may
not be willing to sacrifice security to workaround an issue in buggy
drivers.
Is this a setting that could be exposed in a GUI such as
network-manager-gnome? Could it be an acceptable compromise?
The user with a connection issue would open the connection settings
dialog et found a checkbox:
[X] Randomize MAC address during scan
There would be a tooltip explaining that while this might be desirable,
it is known to cause issues on some HW/drivers. The user would uncheck
it and try again.
Should we open a bug on network-manager-gnome for this?
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Jérôme
