I would like to see some information, including MAC address, of a WiFi hotspot that I tried to connect to and failed in the past.
I can not try connecting to it again any more, because it is not a hotspot that is in range, but one that I noticed and tried to connect to once.
Are there logs for this? Where can I find them?
Adding to this: I need to be able to find and identigy the network or device again even if they changed their name. From what I've read the UUID is assigned by NetworkManager to the connection, and the MAC address it stores is my MAC address, not the address of the network I tried to connect to. Is there any way to see information in the logs about the target network? Is it possible to extract a MAC address out of the UUID or something like that? I really need this.
~/.gconf/system/networking/connections
or in/etc/NetworkManager/
, note that.gconf
is a hidden directory, so you need to enable "Show hidden directories" in nautilus to see it (Ctrl + H). However, I'm not sure if it has the information you want - afaik it only stores the SSID and the password, as that's all that's needed to connect. You can also runnmcli -p con show
to see info of connections. See also thenmcli
manpage. – JonasCz Jun 17 '16 at 14:47