SUMMARY If I connect my laptop or computer to an Ethernet connection, and if the Wifi is still turned on, it will keep connecting and disconnecting to an available WiFi connection. It will only try to connect to an already saved WiFi connections, so its not a security risk, just very annoying. As you need to turn off the WiFi completely for this to stop. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Have WiFi turned on on the PC and be in range of a previously saved WiFi network 2. Plug-in an Ethernet connection (working one) OBSERVED RESULT PC keeps connecting to the available WiFi connection while the Ethernet connection is active EXPECTED RESULT If PC detects an active Ethernet connection, it should stop looking for a WiFi connection, even if WiFi is turned on. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: Fedora Linux 42 KDE Plasma Version: 6.4.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.19.0 Qt Version: 6.9.2 Kernel Version: 6.17.5-200.fc42.x86_64 (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 5800H with Radeon Graphics Memory: 16 GiB of RAM (15.0 GiB usable) Graphics Processor 1: AMD Radeon Graphics Graphics Processor 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop GPU
Connecting to Wi-Fi, even when a wired ethernet connection is active, is by design. The bug here is that NetworkManager is repeatedly connecting and disconnecting from the saved Wi-Fi network. Can you get logs from your system after reproducing this bug? You can either paste them into a comment or attach them as a text file. To get logs from NetworkManager for the current boot: sudo journalctl -b | rg NetworkManager This might produce a lot of output, if so it's better to attach this as a text file. Thanks!
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🐛🧹 This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least 30 days. Closing as RESOLVED WORKSFORME.