Hey Jon, good morning. Last night was coincidental I think. I disconnected again just now but phone stayed connected and working fine. So now I think this might actually be this computer kicking out/being kicked from the network. I also have a blank file called “wifi_rand_mac.conf”. It has nothing in it. I think I created it for the purpose of this: It takes a long time to establish a WiFi connection [Video added] - #63 by latisullivan
I checked systemctl status and wpa_supplicant still masked and inactive, and iwd is running. I thought maybe if both were running because of system updates it could cause trouble. But that seems ok.
I searched how to disable randomization and found this down below, is this the way how to do it? Thanks a lot.
[…]creating file /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/30-mac-randomization.conf with content
[device-mac-randomization]
wifi.scan-rand-mac-address=yes
[connection-mac-randomization]
ethernet.cloned-mac-address=permanent
wifi.cloned-mac-address=permanent
Edit: The weirdest thing: If I used my phone and connected to the hotspot, the network (EAC6) would appear. But trying to connect to it wouldn’t work and then disappear. I decided to try to use the live bootable image and see if I could connect from there. I could, tried watching a video. After some minutes it dropped connection, but could connect again. Decided to change back to wpa_supplicant. It works, at least I can connect. It drops the connection a lot (internet-wise) but at least doesn’t break the network connection.