From: Julien Cubizolles <j.cubizolles@free.fr>
To: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: mwifiex won't connect to WPA2 anymore
Date: Sat, 06 May 2017 22:22:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8737chpwfx.fsf@free.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1494085819.19292.5.camel@redhat.com> (Dan Williams's message of "Sat, 06 May 2017 10:50:19 -0500")
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.
Julien.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-05-06 20:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-29 16:09 mwifiex won't connect to WPA2 anymore Julien Cubizolles
2017-05-03 20:33 ` Julien Cubizolles
2017-05-03 20:43 ` Dan Williams
2017-05-04 21:27 ` Julien Cubizolles
2017-05-05 1:39 ` Dan Williams
2017-05-06 8:41 ` Julien Cubizolles
2017-05-06 15:50 ` Dan Williams
2017-05-06 20:22 ` Julien Cubizolles [this message]
2017-05-08 14:08 ` Dan Williams
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