It takes a long time to establish a WiFi connection [Video added]

[ricklinux]

Well it’s just another option to try.

[limotux]

@arch_lover

The problem is solved using this method.

You can try adding the following to

/etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/wifi_rand_mac.conf

add

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

Just to update you.
I had a similar issue, after boot it takes so long till I manually disconnect and connect.

This worked for me perfectly. (rebooted 2 times before reporting this)
Thank you.
Amazing forum and distro.

[latisullivan]

@linuxislife

I have no idea whatsoever if that would change anything here, but I noticed on my system two supplicant were installed and trying to achieve the same “job”. It looks like you have both too. On my install I noticed that iwd was making NetworkManager blazing fast to connect to WiFi compared to wpa_supplicant. I dunno, maybe try to get rid of one and see what happens
You can check this trhread.

P.S.: I just see @jruschme pointed that earlier, and that you were worried about not be able to reverse… Then don’t worry, I did it back and forth, you just have to restart the service, you won’t be stuck anyway.

Without the conf file RickLinux mentioned, just in case, linuxlife’s solution of disabling wpa_supplicant, masking it, enabling iwd and restarting NM, left the wifi dead. After reboot, it works. I had to connect for the first time to the network with the password, and it connected almost instantly.
Thank you, wifi guru.

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Edit: I want to make an addition for other linux noobs like me.
You can check first, just for sanity and to be sure if you’re like me, what you have installed. You can:

Open the terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T) and do

pacman -Ss wpa_supplicant

Then you can do

pacman -Ss iwd

This is a great newbie tool to “explore” repos and such (hopefully I’m not speaking incorrect things) as both pacman and yay will give you, if found, results of whatever you’re looking for.
Example:

pacman -Ss discord

Here’s a screenshot of what it looks like for me!

Going back to the topic at hand, you can then check what is active or not as other people mentioned with the

$ systemctl status (name of the thing you’re checking)

– in this case wpa_supplicant and iwd

After that, you can proceed trying linuxlife’s solution on disabling wpa_supplicant and leaving iwd enabled.
Cheers!

[pirate]

Hi, I was also facing issue wifi. More specifically, I wasn’t able to connect to my 5GHz band, it was like getting timed out without any notification. I tried in other distros like fedora, RHEL 9, Manjaro and all those places it was working. I suspect I am having this problem after updating last month or maybe 2nd last month, before that it was working in EOS.
So, I just installed networkmanager-iwd package which eventually replace networkmanager as a conflict and now I can connect to my 5GHz band. Thanks a ton @jruschme!!