I'll have to defer to the maintainers judgement about closing the issue. It's a moot point for me as at least 2 newer versions of iproute2 have hit the unstable repo since I reported what I thought was a bug and the issue seems to have been resolved with the upgrades. Thank you for updating me.
On Fri, Dec 29, 2017, at 18:03, Andreas Henriksson wrote: > Hello Van, > > On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 04:20:31PM -0500, Van wrote: > > I downgraded today from 4.13.0-1 to 4.9.0-2.1. Initially, I wasn't able to > > connect via wireless. Network manager made several attempts then just > > stopped trying. I then restarted network manager service (systemctl > > restart network-manager.service), but network manager made several > > unsuccessful attempts to connect and then just stopped trying. After a few > > more minutes, network manager successfully connected. So, perhaps > > 4.9.0-2.1 just caused an issue(s) where it takes network manager longer to > > establish a wifi connection. > > > > I'm including additional info below. Again though, my belief is that > > whatever the issue is with 4.9.0-2.1, if there is an issue, appears to have > > been resolved with 4.13.0-1. My wifi connection is established without > > issue upon bootup with 4.13.0-1. > > > > I don't know if it's relevent, but when looking through the output of > > journalctl, a different MAC is set for my wireless card and then gets set > > to the real MAC. > [...] > > I'm quite sure NetworkManager and iproute2 are completely unrelated. > They have nothing in common other than both talking directly to the > kernel via the netlink protocol. (In other words, NetworkManager > does not utilize ip(route2).) > > The information in this bug report is quite vague and it seems to me > like the problem you might have seen could have been just by chance > matching to your up/downgrades of the iproute2 package version. > > I think there's enough information here to close this bug report but > will leave that decition up to the new maintainer(s). > > Regards, > Andreas Henriksson
