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charlie

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Registered: 2013-09-18

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[SOLVED]Changed my wifi card and now I have to reenter all the passwor

I've upgraded my wifi card but after doing that I had to reenter the passwords/security details in order to connect to the networks I usually connect to. I'm using gnome and NetworkManager. Is this expected behavior?

I have not been successful in looking for information about this so far.

Last edited by charlie (2019-10-08 12:57:47)

V1del

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Re: [SOLVED]Changed my wifi card and now I have to reenter all the passwor

Networkmanager can (and most of it's GUIs do by default) associate information for a specific connection with the interface they were used on. So since your interface changed, they will see that as a "new connection". Not sure how it looks on gnome's config side however on kde with plasma-nm you can specify whether a connection/credentials should be valid for a single interface or all of them.

Kartious

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Re: [SOLVED]Changed my wifi card and now I have to reenter all the passwor

Possibly that the wireless devices are seeing a new MAC address and want to re-authenticate the handshake.

This isn't really a massive problem though to look into.

Did you get any logs at least post connecting the new card?

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charlie

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Registered: 2013-09-18

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Re: [SOLVED]Changed my wifi card and now I have to reenter all the passwor

Networkmanager can (and most of it's GUIs do by default) associate information for a specific connection with the interface they were used on. So since your interface changed, they will see that as a "new connection"

That would make sense indeed.

This isn't really a massive problem though to look into.

Did you get any logs at least post connecting the new card?

Just checking this was normal. As you suggest I won't post any logs unless you really want me to.

Thanks for the answers.