On/Off state of WiFi is not restored on a reboot

[UniversalSuperBox]

• Device: dora (Sony Xperia X Performance)
• Channel: unknown
• Build: unknown

Steps to reproduce

1. Turn off the WiFi switch
2. Reboot the device

Expected behavior

The WiFi switch is still off when the device boots.

Actual behavior

The WiFi switch is turned back on when the device boots

Logfiles and additional information

None provided. Originally reported by @idtwar in #1601

[UniversalSuperBox]

@idtwar, I am unsure which channel "community dev (aarch64)" is in your original report. Could you please run system-image-cli -i in a terminal and report back with the value of channel:?

[idtwar]

current build number: 53
device name: dora
channel: 16.04/community/anpok/devel
last update: 2020-11-16 10:16:32
version version: 53
version ubports: 20200602-30971
version tag: 2020-06-07
version keyring: archive-master
version device: 7bcad6805f5d73c5259e6f5ae707647f2e43381cbdbd04edbdfe57bf16446d82

[robiwan1]

This is because the MAC address of wlan0 is regenerated on each reboot, and therefor a new wifi profile has to be setup. SOLUTION: after first wifi setup remove the MAC from the wifi profile. This allows the networkmanager to connect the already configured profile automatically. Do the following in the ubports shell:

~$ nmcli connection modify 802-11-wireless.mac-address ""
~$ nmcli connection modify connection.interface-name wlan0

[robiwan1]

~$ nmcli connection modify PROFILE 802-11-wireless.mac-address ""
~$ nmcli connection modify PROFILE connection.interface-name wlan0

[idtwar]

Thanks exactly it worked.