Package: network-manager Version: 1.2.0-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
on Debian Stretch, my wireless USB adapter (which needs firmware-realtek), does NOT automatically establish a wireless connection. Under the Gnome pop-up (click top-left screen edge), I do NOT see anything about wireless. dmesg shows ~~~~~~~~~~~ [ 5.742746] r8712u: module is from the staging directory, the quality is unknown, you have been warned. [ 5.744667] r8712u: register rtl8712_netdev_ops to netdev_ops [ 5.744680] usb 1-2: r8712u: USB_SPEED_HIGH with 4 endpoints [ 5.745025] usb 1-2: r8712u: Boot from EFUSE: Autoload OK [ 6.062112] usb 1-2: r8712u: CustomerID = 0x000a [ 6.062120] usb 1-2: r8712u: MAC Address from efuse = 00:87:33:55:3e:50 [ 6.062124] usb 1-2: r8712u: Loading firmware from "rtlwifi/rtl8712u.bin" [ 6.062281] usbcore: registered new interface driver r8712u [ 6.065014] usb 1-2: firmware: direct-loading firmware rtlwifi/rtl8712u.bin [ 6.070499] r8712u 1-2:1.0 wlx008733553e50: renamed from wlan0 My current (manual) workaround: I need to manually issue this command: sudo service network-manager restart ============================ Then wireless appears in the Gnome pop-up and connects! dmesg then shows: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ [ 63.913619] e1000e: enp0s31f6 NIC Link is Down [ 64.085767] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlx008733553e50: link is not ready [ 64.787502] r8712u 1-2:1.0 wlx008733553e50: 1 RCR=0x153f00e [ 64.788051] r8712u 1-2:1.0 wlx008733553e50: 2 RCR=0x553f00e [ 64.891374] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlx008733553e50: link is not ready [ 64.897949] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): enp0s31f6: link is not ready [ 65.099325] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): enp0s31f6: link is not ready [ 65.176494] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlx008733553e50: link is not ready [ 75.638776] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlx008733553e50: link becomes ready Thanks for any pointers. -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.5.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages network-manager depends on: ii adduser 3.114 ii dbus 1.10.8-1 ii init-system-helpers 1.31 ii isc-dhcp-client 4.3.4-1 ii libaudit1 1:2.4.5-1+b1 ii libbluetooth3 5.36-1 ii libc6 2.22-7 ii libglib2.0-0 2.48.0-1 ii libgnutls30 3.4.11-4 ii libgudev-1.0-0 230-3 ii libmm-glib0 1.4.14-1 ii libndp0 1.4-2 ii libnewt0.52 0.52.18-3 ii libnl-3-200 3.2.27-1 ii libnm0 1.2.0-1 ii libpam-systemd 229-5 ii libpolkit-agent-1-0 0.105-15 ii libpolkit-gobject-1-0 0.105-15 ii libreadline6 6.3-8+b4 ii libselinux1 2.5-2 ii libsoup2.4-1 2.54.1-1 ii libsystemd0 229-5 ii libteamdctl0 1.24-1 ii libuuid1 2.28-1 ii lsb-base 9.20160110 ii policykit-1 0.105-15 ii udev 229-5 ii wpasupplicant 2.3-2.3 Versions of packages network-manager recommends: ii crda 3.13-1+b1 ii dnsmasq-base 2.75-1 ii iptables 1.6.0-2 ii iputils-arping 3:20150815-2 ii modemmanager 1.4.14-1 ii ppp 2.4.7-1+2 Versions of packages network-manager suggests: pn libteam-utils <none> -- Configuration Files: /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf changed: [main] plugins=ifupdown,keyfile [ifupdown] managed=true -- no debconf information