[pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#833507: wpasupplicant: workaround wifi.scan-rand-mac-address=no

Thomas thomas at thomasschraven.nl
Mon Dec 4 23:13:11 UTC 2017


I had the exact same issue and this fixed it for me.

On 04/12/17 20:29, Noël Köthe wrote:
> Package: wpasupplicant
> Version: 2:2.6-11
> Followup-For: Bug #833507
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> with one of the sid updates last week my wireless stop
> working again with the
> wpa_supplicant[737]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SUBNET-STATUS-UPDATE status=0
> 
> I remember a workaround for this problem from the past to add 
> into /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf the following:
> 
> [device]
> wifi.scan-rand-mac-address=no
> 
> which fixed it again for me.
> 
> ...
> network-manager (1.4.0-4) unstable; urgency=medium
> ...
>   * Fix MAC address randomization.
>     Cherry-pick a couple of upstream commits which work around driver bugs
>     when MAC address randomization is used. (Closes: #835822, #835553)
> ...
> 
> Because the last network-manager was from 2017-11-10 and my wlan problem
> started last week I'm a bit unsure where the root cause is.
> 
> Maybe the workaround helps someone.
> 
> Regards
> 
> 	Noël
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: buster/sid
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 4.14.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
> 
> Versions of packages wpasupplicant depends on:
> ii  adduser           3.116
> ii  libc6             2.25-3
> ii  libdbus-1-3       1.12.2-1
> ii  libnl-3-200       3.2.27-2
> ii  libnl-genl-3-200  3.2.27-2
> ii  libpcsclite1      1.8.22-1
> ii  libreadline7      7.0-3
> ii  libssl1.1         1.1.0g-2
> ii  lsb-base          9.20170808
> 
> wpasupplicant recommends no packages.
> 
> Versions of packages wpasupplicant suggests:
> pn  libengine-pkcs11-openssl  <none>
> pn  wpagui                    <none>
> 
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