Bug 397489

Summary: MAC change not working via plasma-nm
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: h.strack
Component: Networking in generalAssignee: Jan Grulich <jgrulich>
Status: REPORTED ---    
Severity: normal    
Priority: NOR    
Version: master   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: Kubuntu   
OS: Linux   
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Description h.strack 2018-08-15 15:40:15 UTC 
Hi,
i recently needed to change the wlan mac on my laptop (Kubuntu 18.04). This used to work on that machine a few years ago. This time when I change the mac in plasma-nm, the connection simply fails. Journalctl shows no error messages, it simply tries to connect a few times without success. If I do establish the connection manually (shell), it works. Out of curiosity I gave gnome a try instead of KDE (same session), there mac change works flawlessly as well. 
Since I updated Kubuntu a few times, I tried the same at my office machine (fedora 28): Same thing: Mac change via nmcli works like a charm, as do the random Mac options. If I change the MAC-addr in KDE via plasma-nm, connection fails. Happens with both, encrypted and unencrypted wlan connections. 
Out of curiosity I tried the same with a Debian live Image (latest weekly KDE build): Same thing here. 
Regards,
Henning
Comment 1 fire f. 2019-08-09 11:38:19 UTC 
plasma-nm has issues but I thought it was limited to "special" cases like VLAN.
Comment 2 Ben Cooksley 2024-12-23 18:23:40 UTC 
Bulk transfer as requested in T17796