Thank you very much Beniamino Galvani, I tried b43 driver and the performance was very poort for my BCM4331 (macbook pro) wifi. Hence I moved to wl. I give it another try
On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 8:07 AM Beniamino Galvani <bgalv...@redhat.com> wrote: > On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 01:32:59AM +0100, Bhasker C V via > networkmanager-list wrote: > > Hi, > > > > My wifi works (thanks for bwtnguy who pointed me to the issue) > > However when I turn on > > wifi.cloned-mac-address=stable > > The NM does not connect to wifi anymore. > > > > My driver is wl. I use it with BCM4331 chip wifi card. > > debian bullseye (NetworkManager==1.30.0 wpa_supplicant==v2.9) > > Is this a known issue? Is there a fix for this ? > > Hi, > > this is a known issue, the Broadcom wl driver doesn't work well if the > MAC is changed. Unfortunately the driver is closed and so only > Broadcom can fix this problem. > > According to this [1] the 'b43' open source driver supports > BCM4331. You could try if it works better. > > [1] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx > > Beniamino >
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