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Change WiFi Cloned MAC Address to Permanent Address for an SSID

The following command is required to set the MAC address for a wireless interface for a given wireless network profile (which is named after the corresponding SSID) to the permanent address.

This is in response to a change introduced in Fedora 40 as documented in the Fedora Wiki: Changes/StableSSIDMACAddress

nmcli connection modify {ssid} wifi.cloned-mac-address permanent

To revert the change, run:

nmcli connection modify {ssid} wifi.cloned-mac-address stable-ssid
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