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

[Andrew Shadura]

On 4 December 2017 at 20:29, Noël Köthe <noel at debian.org> 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.

Just to be sure, are you absolutely sure it doesn't work with the
latest wpasupplicant without the NM snippet? I have put a similar one
into the wpasupplicant package, but a driver-specific one.

Could you please let me know what driver are you using?
You should be able to find out by running:

nmcli -f GENERAL.DRIVER,GENERAL.DRIVER-VERSION device show

Please bear in mind the file I'm shipping doesn't work with old NM,
what version are you using?

Thanks.

-- 
Cheers,
  Andrew