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Folks,

I have an LG Gram, I use Network Manager and use the latest version of Mageia.

At home I have two networks, one of them is mesh and has coverage over most of the house. One of them is on the router and is only strong in one room.

If I connect to the mesh network it will run for a short while, disconnect and then connect to the router's wifi. If I attempt to reconnect to the mesh network, every time it asks me to reinsert the looooong password connects for a short time (we're talking 15seconds or so) then disconnects and am back to router network which, when upstairs, is rubbish.

This morning I went into MCC, tried to set up a new network and noticed that it had completely the wrong password in there for the mesh network (it had the password for work's wifi). I thought, bingo, something's screwed up there (despite the password being correct in network manager interface). However, it dropped out again and I'm back to square one. Now if I go back to MCC there are no available networks to choose from.

I can USB tether to my phone on the mesh network and all is fine. A different laptop and all is fine, the mesh is not at fault, there is something funky going on with my laptop.

Would be grateful for any help, pointers and suggestions to solve this.

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lspcidrake -v | grep -iE "wlan|wifi|wireless|net"
iwlwifi         : Intel Corporation|Device 51f1 [NETWORK_OTHER] (vendor:8086 device:51f1 subv:8086 subd:0094) (rev: 01)
btusb           : Intel Corp.|AX211 Bluetooth [Wireless|Radio Frequency|Bluetooth] (vendor:8087 device:0033)

ps -ef | grep -v grep | grep -iE "net|wpa"
root           6       2  0 May03 ?        00:00:00 [kworker/R-netns]
root         114       2  0 May03 ?        00:00:00 [kworker/R-inet_]
root        1024       1  0 May03 ?        00:00:04 /usr/sbin/NetworkManager --no-daemon
root        1165       1  0 May03 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/wpa_supplicant -u -P /run/wpa_supplicant.pid -s -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
root       14112   14080  0 08:26 ?        00:00:00 /usr/libexec/webkit2gtk-4.1/WebKitNetworkProcess 7 13
root       14163   14080  0 08:26 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/libexec/draknetcenter --embedded 65016692
root       14262       2  0 08:27 ?        00:00:00 [kworker/7:0-inet_frag_wq]
robertw    14267    1650  0 08:27 ?        00:00:01 /usr/bin/systemsettings kcm_networkmanagement --args --args Uuid=7232c6a4-9157-4ceb-ad58-2c1b0825d16a


As you seem to have draknetcenter open - do you use the MCC tools or networkmanager to manage your wifi connections?
It's a bit contradictory as you have networkmanager running and also the plasma module for networkmanager open, but you also have draknetcenter opened - you should stick to one or the other native tool, and don't mix.

For those 2 networks, do they maybe have the same name? Or is it actually only one network with a few repeaters ?

Have you followed https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Switching_to_networkmanager ?

doktor5000 wrote:As you seem to have draknetcenter open - do you use the MCC tools or networkmanager to manage your wifi connections?
It's a bit contradictory as you have networkmanager running and also the plasma module for networkmanager open, but you also have draknetcenter opened - you should stick to one or the other native tool, and don't mix.

For those 2 networks, do they maybe have the same name? Or is it actually only one network with a few repeaters ?

It's network manager I'm using and have done for many years on many different computers as VPN doesn't work on drak.

The two networks do not have the same name, they are totally separate. One is a single access point which is downstairs and the other network is a proper mesh with multiple access points - the later is the problematic one. I tried drak out of desperation. Everything work on my old laptop, my partner's, all mobile phones. I just have something funky going on with this one.

DiBosco wrote:It's network centre I'm using and have done for many years on many different computers as VPN doesn't work on drak.

Huh? draknetcenter is from the MCC drakx tools: https://doc.mageia.org/mcc/9/en/content ... knetcenter
If you mean networkmanager - then why do you have draknetcenter running if you don't use it?

Apart from that, you'd need to check the networkmanager connections where you stored the secrets. When managing it from the systemsettings module from plasma in the systray you have multiple choices on where to store the secrets.
You can store them in plain text which is the worst, you can store them encrypted in the connection, or you can store them in the secrets management provider per user (kwallet per default in plasma).

Please post the output as regular user of

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nmcli dev status
nmcli device wifi list
nmcli list secrets

(the last should not show the actual secrets unless you add -s or --show-secrets, which you should NOT post here)