This is an interesting, dare I say exotic, wifi failure mode, at least to
me.

I was unable to connect to wifi at home today, and also unable to add
anothe AP connection.

This did not make any sense to me - so, I spent some time looking into it.
I eventually, connected the laptop to ethernet - I asked Claude Fable, if
it could figure it out.

After some loose ends, me being very, very specific, rejecting bunch of
explanations with data - it comes down to this:

There is nerby AP, set in BR regulatory domain (Wi-Fi frequencies/channels)
broadcasting BR countey code. This caused my laptop's wifi flapping between
US and BR regulatory domains via 802.11d. So, my wifi saw my US AP picking
its AP object Id , by the time NM got to connect, the wifi card swithed to
BR frequencies/channels and the AP object Id was gone. So, it was timing
issue realy.

Solution: sudo iw reg set US.

I do not think that I have enough experience to have figured this out
myself. I checked the diagnosis - journalctl supports it as well as google
search for NM error message: "The access point
/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/AccessPoint/NNN was not in the scan list."

I thought, this is worth sharing, not for AI, but as an interesting
networking issue.

-Tom

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