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alex_free

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Feb 24, 2020
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I am currently maxing out all my Macs and dualbooting old OS X versions and bleeding edge Linux. I installed Debian 11, and besides the sleep issues everything just worked, except the WiFi.

I mean it did connect, but it would drop out and die forever, never connecting again to my home network (which admittedly is terrible and has issues in itself). I tried a bunch of random things, and finally something worked! My router hates randomized MAC addressing. So I turned it off, and have had a stable fast connection ever since.

What I did:

Code:
sudo vi /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf

add these lines:

Code:
[device]
wifi.scan-rand-mac-address=no

And then reboot!
 
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