Hi, I am wondering why the cloned mac is not working. As such this is for sure not a driver issue, since I am able to setup a random mac and able to easiy successfully connect manually using wpa_supplicant. So it is network manager doing something which wl does not like. Could that be unset so that the config generated by networkmanager matches a simple config generated by wpa_passphrase ?
Sorry, i dont see a reason why a random mac must have an issue with wl driver. -- Regards, Bhasker C V On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 7:46 PM Bhasker C V <bhas...@unixindia.com> wrote: > 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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