WiFi connect issue

[Bob Wallace]

Snowbird in town for the winter with a WiFi connect issue between laptop 
and hot spot. While the wlan0 is coming up at boot time, it's not 
allowing the laptop to connect with it in any way other than a direct 
plug-in to the USB port. After digging around inside, it appears the 
device phy0 is set up with an address that is different from the hot 
spot that wlan0 should connect with. Connecting with anything other than 
the hot spot -- library, coffee shop -- is not an issue, it connects 
every time, everywhere. The laptop's WiFi connect setup for the hot spot 
is using the correct address for making the connection, but is not 
connecting wirelessly.

Background: This is a Lenovo T500 running Mageia v4, all system files up 
to date. Mageia is a fork of Mandriva (Mandrake prior to that) from 
several years ago.

Bob Wallace
Wintering in Phoenix