Whenever I boot into Fedora, it tries to connect to a wifi that actually does not exist. In the login screen I get an error message saying there’s no (correct?) key to connect to the wifi. On my phone I don’t see that wifi connection.
I can look at the connection that it tries to connect to when I go to “All Networks”. It will show up at “Visible Networks”, and I can enter the settings for it. I tried to disable “Connect automatically”, but the Apply button can’t be pressed.
After I connect to my actual wifi it’s not visible anymore.
Also to be noted, I set it so that my PC won’t automatically connect to my wifi.
hmm…
Okay this is based on what I’m seeing in my F43 GNOME Settings Wi-Fi interface…
There is corner case that you might have fallen into and you may be able to fix it by deleting the correct network from Saved network.
Bare with me Im gonna try to explain what i did on my system to get into a state similar to yours..
I used the connect to hidden network and created a network called “Very_Bad_Idea”
I let the connection attempt fail and switched back into my normal home network
I then went into Saved Networks an editted the Very_Bad_idea network to use the same SSID as my home network, setup security with the wrong password.
now the Very_Bad_Idea network shows up in visible networks.. because its using the say SSID as my home betwork…
I can fix this by deleting the The_Bad_Idea network from the saved network list.
So based on my little experiment, it makes sense to me that somehow, and I can’t be sure how, you have two “named” networks with the same SSID configured.
I know its a little confusing.. by default the name of the network and the SSID are the same..but that’s just default logic being applied to populate the name which is just a label and the SSID which is a functional part of the network configuration.
I can imagine several scenarios where something weird happened and you fell into this corner. If you are able to just delete all the saved networks you probably take care of this without having to look closely.
But if you want to look closely.. you can go into the settings for each network in your saved network list and see if two or more of them share and SSID with your home network.
The saved network connections on fedora can be seen in /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections
If you look in there do you see an entry for the connection that does not exist? If so then the problem can probably be cleared up by removing that file.
That did the trick, my PC isn’t trying to connect to that network anymore.
What’s interesting though is that it still shows up in the list of “available” networks, but with 0 bars. As soon as I connect to my regular network, it will disappear from the list.
It may be a neighbors device that is at extreme range and potentially you may have tried connecting at some time (intentionally or otherwise) so the details were saved.