On 2/24/26 11:57 AM, Dave Close wrote:
I wrote:
I'd like a wifi connection to be automatically activated whenever the
associated machine is booted. This file does the job on one machine:
# cat /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/NAME.nmconnection
[connection]
id=NAME
uuid=...
type=wifi
timestamp=...
[wifi]
cloned-mac-address=permanent
mac-address-randomization=never
mode=infrastructure
ssid=NAME
[wifi-security]
key-mgmt=wpa-psk
psk=PASSWORD
[ipv4]
method=auto
[ipv6]
addr-gen-mode=stable-privacy
method=auto
[proxy]
However, on two others the connection does not come up. Trying after boot
from the command line, I see:
# nmcli c up NAME
Push of the WPS button on the router or a password is required to
access the wireless network 'NAME'.
Warning: password for '802-11-wireless-security.psk' not given in
'passwd-file' and nmcli cannot ask without '--ask' option.
Error: Connection activation failed: Secrets were required, but not
provided
If I create a password file and run,
# nmcli c up NAME passwd-file NAME.pw
it comes up just fine. But I can't find any way to declare that file name
in the nmconnection file.
The only obvious difference between the machines is that the one which
works does not have a wired connection, only wifi. The other two do have
a wired connection which does come up on boot.
Note, Fedora 43 x86_64 regularly upgraded. NetworkManager version on all
three machines is the same, NetworkManager-1.54.3-2.fc43.x86_64.
Samuel Sieb wrote:
The "psk=PASSWORD" line is what does it. You need the password there.
As the file cat'd above shows, I have it there. Exactly the same on all
three machines. For some reason on two of them, it doesn't work.
I've never had this not work.
I compared again against what I have and there's a "auth-alg=open" line
first in the "[wifi-security]" section in every wifi connection that has
a password. Maybe that's what's missing.
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