bes2600 driver

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wifi.cloned-mac-address=permanent actually uses the hardware MAC address, so if the hardware MAC address keeps changing, that is exactly what you do not want. (The assumption behind the naming is that the hardware is not broken and the MAC address it reports is actually permanent, which does not seem to be satisfied in your case.)

As for your attempt with stable (which should work): You should check whether there is some setting dropped by the distro into /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf or /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/ that sets wifi.cloned-mac-address and overrides your setting. If so, change or comment out the conflicting setting coming from the distro.

You can also try setting a MAC address explicitly, such as: wifi.cloned-mac-address=00:00:00:00:00:00. (You will probably want to use a less obviously spoofed address than that though.)

Thanks for the clarification, @Kevin Kofler 
in the /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf is nothing, and in [i]/etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/ there are no othe configuration files, other than my no-randomization.conf.[/i]

Tried also to set
wifi.cloned-mac-address=XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
It doesnt help. The Mac randomization is coming from the bes2600 driver every boot and that is very weird

Maybe some of the other Pinetab2 Users here can tell, if they have the same Problem ?

PS: By the way, i tested SailfishOS Port from @piggz
The port itself is very stable, but the same problem with the random MAC-Addresses...


It was not the best decision to choose BES2600 Chip for the PineTab2. In 2023, a chip which have only 802.11a/b/g/n and has not been tested on modern kernels is really very weird.
PineTabV has normal Realtek Chip with 802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ax
Why the hell?

The Gitlab page with source code for the bes2600 is maintained by 1 Person. Last commit was 4 month ago. I am very doubt, we will ever see a stable bes2600 for the Pinetab2

Because the Problem is complex, because the chip is mess and because its maintained only by one person (which done a very good job, but stil...)

Maybe Pine64 will see the Problem and will bring out replacement mainboards for PineTab2 with a normal wifi chip.