On Sat, 2017-05-06 at 22:22 +0200, Julien Cubizolles wrote: > Dan Williams <d...@redhat.com> writes: > > > > Ok, at this point the only thing I can think of is the MAC > > randomization that NM has. Please see: > > > > https://blogs.gnome.org/thaller/2016/08/26/mac-address-spoofing-in- > > networkmanager-1-4-0/ > > > > and look at the section "Randomization during Wi-Fi scanning" where > > it > > says: > > > > ---- > > This default behavior can be disabled with a global configuration > > option in NetworkManager.conf: > > > > [device] > > wifi.scan-rand-mac-address=no > > ---- > > > > if you set that, and restart NetworkManager, does that magically > > make > > things work? > > Yes! It's now working fine, thanks a lot. I have my wifi AP set to > only > accept a whitelist of MAC addresses so it makes sense that I can't > connect if the MAC address is random. I'll disable the randomization > for > now on.
Well, ideally you wouldn't have to do this, but we haven't quite figured out whether it's a bug in the way NM does randomization or whether the drivers that require this switch (there are a few) are just broken somehow. Dan
