[pkg-wpa-devel] [wpa] 01/02: Tell NetworkManager to not touch MAC addresses on unsupported drivers.

Andrew Shadura andrewsh at debian.org
Tue Nov 28 10:30:55 UTC 2017


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commit c07b682a06fec59485b56ef957f062fb4199d497
Author: Andrew Shadura <andrew.shadura at collabora.co.uk>
Date:   Tue Nov 28 10:41:39 2017 +0100

    Tell NetworkManager to not touch MAC addresses on unsupported drivers.
---
 debian/NetworkManager/no-mac-addr-change.conf | 12 ++++++++++++
 debian/wpasupplicant.install                  |  1 +
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/debian/NetworkManager/no-mac-addr-change.conf b/debian/NetworkManager/no-mac-addr-change.conf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..febe9e1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/NetworkManager/no-mac-addr-change.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+# Certain drivers are known not to support changing the MAC address.
+# Disable touching the MAC address on such devices.
+#
+# See man NetworkManager.conf
+#
+# https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=777523
+
+[device-mac-addr-change-wifi]
+match-device=driver:rtl8723bs,driver:rtl8189es,driver:r8188eu,driver:eagle_sdio
+wifi.scan-rand-mac-address=no
+wifi.cloned-mac-address=preserve
+ethernet.cloned-mac-address=preserve
diff --git a/debian/wpasupplicant.install b/debian/wpasupplicant.install
index 46f0194..9307687 100644
--- a/debian/wpasupplicant.install
+++ b/debian/wpasupplicant.install
@@ -3,3 +3,4 @@ debian/ifupdown/wpa_action sbin/
 wpa_supplicant/wpa_cli sbin/
 wpa_supplicant/wpa_passphrase usr/bin/
 wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant sbin/
+debian/NetworkManager/no-mac-addr-change.conf usr/lib/NetworkManager/conf.d/

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