[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#817115: Bug#817115: [network-manager] Wireless Device Support Regression (wext)

[Antonio Russo]

On 03/08/16 08:19, Michael Biebl wrote:
> NetworkManager uses the Linux nl80211/cfg80211 interface by default, but
> also has wext as fallback.

Indeed, WEXT does appear to be enabled in this build:

> Mar 08 07:57:46 frost NetworkManager[6271]: <info> [1457452666.584480] (wlan0): using WEXT for WiFi device control

I also tried rebuilding the package with an explicit --with-wext=yes and it did not solve anything.

> Could you send me a debug log of NetworkManager. For that run
> 
> systemctl stop NetworkManager
> NetworkManager --debug --log-level=DEBUG
> 
> The output of
> journalctl -u wpa_supplicant.service
> would be helpful as well.

Sending this out-of-band.

> 
> More instructions at [1].
> 
> Regards,
> Michael
> 
> [1]
> https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/NetworkManager/Debugging#Debugging_WiFi_Connections
> 

I'll mention that dmesg shows the firmware being loaded:

[ 4613.773476] usb 3-1: r8712u: Loading firmware from "rtlwifi/rtl8712u.bin"
[ 4613.773542] usb 3-1: firmware: direct-loading firmware rtlwifi/rtl8712u.bin

"rfkill list all" has no output, and "nmcl radio" confirms that wifi is enabled. "iwlist scanning" confirms that the card is indeed working (it
shows available wifi networks).

Thanks,
Antonio