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Subject: Re: mwifiex won't connect to WPA2 anymore
From: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
To: Julien Cubizolles <j.cubizolles@free.fr>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Date: Sat, 06 May 2017 10:50:19 -0500
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On Sat, 2017-05-06 at 10:41 +0200, Julien Cubizolles wrote:
> Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com> writes:
> 
> 
> > Just to test, could you add:
> > 
> > auth_alg=OPEN
> > key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
> > scan_ssid=1
> > 
> > to the block and retry with the supplicant?  I don't know why those
> > would make a difference but they might.
> 
> They don't: wpa_supplicant still connects with these settings.

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?

Dan