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How is it possible to debug wireless problems (client side) when no messages show up in the journal?
Furthermore, when I turn off 'Allow roaming of access points' in my wireless configuration it doesn't update the config file
because it's checked when I go to configure it again....

kernel 4.1.8-desktop-1.mga5
64bit.

What messages don't show up, and what were you looking for?

For debugging, please at least provide some basic information, like:
Which desktop environment are you using? Do you use net_applet or NetworkManager?

And please provide the output of the following commands:

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lspcidrake -v | grep -i -e net -e wireless -e wifi
ps -ef | grep -v grep | grep -ie net -e wpa


and, as root:

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ifconfig -a
rfkill list all
systemctl status network.service -a
journalctl -ab -u network
journalctl -ab | grep -iE "fw|firmware|iwl|wifi|wire|80211"

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lspcidrake -v | grep -i -e net -e wireless -e wifi
r8169           : Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.|RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller [NETWORK_ETHERNET] (vendor:10ec device:8168 subv:103c subd:3603) (rev: 02)
iwlwifi         : Intel Corporation|WiFi Link 5100 [NETWORK_OTHER] (vendor:8086 device:4232 subv:8086 subd:1201)
btusb           : Broadcom Corp|HP Integrated Module [Wireless|Radio Frequency|Bluetooth] (vendor:03f0 device:171d)

ps -ef | grep -v grep | grep -ie net -e wpa
root        16     2  0 18:04 ?        00:00:00 [netns]
systemd+  5762     1  0 18:04 ?        00:00:00 /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-networkd
bob       8931  8126  0 18:06 ?        00:00:06 /usr/bin/perl /usr/bin/net_applet


I expect to see network messages in the journal as the wireless is attempting to connect to the access point.
If it fails, I would expect messages as to what the root cause is...

As it turned out, /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf was trashed. I have no idea how, but it had incomplete entries in the network sections.