Regarding dhcp -- could you start tcpdump and then trigger NM to setup the interface (start NetworkManager)? ip link set up wlp3s0 tcpdump -envfi wlp3s0 -s 65535 -U -w dhcp4.out 'udp port 67 or udp port 68' and trigger the NetworkManager to setup the interface and after a while, abort tcpdump with Ctrl-C and attach the dhcp4.out file along with the /var/log/NetworkManager and /var/log/wpa_supplicant.log log files? Make sense to reset the log files before using e.g.: cp -b /dev/null /var/log/NetworkManager cp -b /dev/null /var/log/wpa_supplicant.log