I had a similar issue on my laptop. Disabling IPv6 fixed it. Not the best long-term solution, but it made my laptop usable again. On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 9:31 PM Ranjan Maitra <maitra@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi, > > Recently, as of last week, I installed Fedora 28 on a new XPS 13. I went with Openbox window manager and no desktop environment because that is what I feel gives me the most bang for my buck. If I am behind the times, feel free to correct me but that is not the issue here. > > Anyway, everything works great, from what I can tell except that my network appears to disconnect after a while (such as 30 minutes, say). NetworkManager (nm-applet) indicates that the connection is valid as is the VPN but nothing goes or comes. The solution is to click on the connection and essentially get a new connection. > > I had read recently about the new Fedora feature of randomizing the MAC address and so I tried disabling that and using the following: > > nmcli c modify e8c79829-1848-4563-8e44-466e14a3223d 802-11-wireless.cloned-mac-address permanent > > nmcli c down e8c79829-1848-4563-8e44-466e14a3223d > > nmcli c up e8c79829-1848-4563-8e44-466e14a3223d > > Where the mac addresses are taken from the article. > > I had hoped that my issue would be go away but no dice. > > Any suggestions on what I could be trying? Feel free to ask questions in case additional information is needed. > > Many thanks and best wishes, > Ranjan > > > -- > Important Notice: This mailbox is ignored: e-mails are set to be deleted on receipt. Please respond to the mailing list if appropriate. For those needing to send personal or professional e-mail, please use appropriate addresses. > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Ben Cotton Fedora Program Manager TZ=America/Indiana/Indianapolis _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
