[pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#849077: Bug#849077: wpasupplicant: [Regression] Updating wpasupplicant makes not possible to connect to encrypted WiFi

[Michael Biebl]

On Tue, 10 Jan 2017 15:36:06 -0300 Lisandro
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dami=E1n_Nicanor_P=E9rez?= Meyer <perezmeyer at gmail.com>
wrote:
> On martes, 10 de enero de 2017 17:24:00 ART Andrew Shadura wrote:
> [snip] 
> > Lisandro, could you please confirm this indeed was the issue with MAC
> > randomization and it indeed is solved by an NM update?
> 
> No, not solved by the NM update. To avoid the bug I still need to configure NM 
> to disable randomization.
> 
> That being said I have no clue who's at fault: NM, wpa-supplicant, the wifi's 
> driver or a specific mix of them.

It's most likely a driver or rather hardware specific issue, exposed by
the fact that NM enables that address randomization feature, which in
turn requires wpasupplicant 2.5+ for it to work iirc.
By turning it off in NM or downgrading wpasupplicant, you simply avoid
that problem.

I was pointed at [1] by NM upstream.
Lisandro, it might make sense to follow up upstream, so your card is
included in that list as well (with a log file as Thomas suggested)

Andrew, since you've been asking on IRC: if this turns out to be a huge
problem for many users, we can change that default in NM. For now it
looks like isolated incidents so I'd keep the current configuration for now.

If you see more bug reports coming in related to this issue, please let
me know and we can re-evaluate this decision.

Michael

[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=775529
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