On 9/26/21 8:28 PM, Masaru Nomiya wrote:
Hello,
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Subject : Re: YaST is failing to set up wi-fi (wlan0) interface correctly. Message-ID :
Date & Time: Sun, 26 Sep 2021 19:58:40 -0700 [MC] == Marc Chamberlin
has written: [...] MC> Thanks again Masaru with another good question that I should have MC> stated. I am using Wicked. Marc....
Thanks.
Have you checked the status of mac address randomization in Android?
Hi Masaru - I think you are starting to ask questions that are above my pay grade! LOL Up until you asked I didn't even know it was possible to randomize mac addresses! My Android phone is a Samsung Galaxy S8 running Android 9. Google searches showed me ways to find and set/reset mac address randomization, but none of those methods seem applicable to my phone. I simply cannot locate a setting anywhere, including in Developer Options, that allows me to change such an ability. My educated guess is to say that my phone is not using or randomizing it's mac address. The reason I say this is that my phone is set up to use dhcp for getting an IP address lease. And my dhcpd server is set up to hand out specific IP addresses, based on their mac address, to different devices on my SOHO network, including my Android phone. So my Android phone is getting the same local network IP address assigned to it every time. I would think that to randomize my Android's mac address would break my dhcpd server's ability to give my Android phone it's very specific IP address, and also occasionally break other IP assignments to other devices on my network. But what do I know, this is getting beyond my ability to grok why randomizing mac address would even be useful. Also, I don't understand why my phone settings would affect my regular ability to connect my OpenSuSE laptop, via wlan0/WiFi, to my normal AP, which is NOT my phone's hotspot. Rather it is a TP-Link WiFi access point / router . Thanks again for taking the time to help me, Masaru, and please bear with me, I am learning new things about WiFi connections as I go along, and some of it is not easy to grok for me... Marc -- *"The Truth is out there" - Spooky* *_ _ . . . . . . _ _ . _ _ _ _ . . . . _ . . . . _ _ . _ _ _ . . . . _ _ . _ . . _ . _ _ _ _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . * Computers: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the user Marc. His mission: to explore strange new hardware. To seek out new software and new applications. To boldly go where no Marc has gone before! (/This email is digitally signed and the electronic signature is attached. If you know how, you can use my public key to prove this email indeed came from me and has not been modified in transit. My public key, which can be used for sending encrypted email to me also, can be found at - https://keys.openpgp.org/search?q=marc@marcchamberlin.com or just ask me for it and I will send it to you as an attachment. If you don't understand all this geek speak, no worries, just ignore this explanation and ignore the signature key attached to this email (it will look like gibberish if you open it) and/or ask me to explain it further if you like./)