[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#839605: network-manager: wireless stuck on "link is not ready"

[Michael Weghorn]

On Fri, 4 Nov 2016 18:10:52 +0100 aaa bbb <nicesw123 at gmail.com> wrote:
> All I needed to get wireless WLAN working, was to add this to
> /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf
> [device-mac-randomization]
> wifi.scan-rand-mac-address=no


Adding the above directive works for me as well. (I am using
network-manager 1.6.2-3 on current Debian sid).

I had previously discovered another workaround: Using the "old naming
scheme" (rather than systemd/udev's new predictable naming scheme) for
the Wifi device worked as well for me:

After disabling the respective systemd unit "network/99-default.link",
the Wifi device gets the name "wlan0" instead of "wlxb0487a89c6ac"
(based on the MAC address) and the connection is successfully
established when using NetworkManager.

This can be achieved by creating an empty file
/etc/systemd/network/99-default.link which then overrides sytemd's
default options in /lib/systemd/network/99-default.link