I’m running Fedora 40 Workstation on a 2014 Macbook Pro and Wi-Fi wouldn’t automatically scan. When booting the laptop, I see no connection in the Wi-Fi picker. But when I run sudo iw dev wlp2s0 scan, I can immediately connect to my AP and see other connections available. I tried reinstalling broa…

You can issue this command in a terminal: $ sudo dnf downgrade wpa_supplicant To exclude the package (temporarily) from then on, you can add edit /etc/dnf/dnf.conf and add this line: excludepkgs=wpa_supplicant Until a fixed version of wpa_supplication becomes available.

Wi-Fi wouldn't automatically scan

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litemotiv (Olivier) August 5, 2024, 3:14pm 2

Welcome Brandon,

You may have to downgrade wpa_supplicant, there have been some issues reported on Macs. See also this thread:

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