Re: mwifiex won't connect to WPA2 anymore

[Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>]

On Sat, 2017-05-06 at 22:22 +0200, Julien Cubizolles wrote:
> Dan Williams <dcbw@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