Your message dated Thu, 21 May 2020 09:06:54 -0400
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and subject line Re: Bug#954861 (done): fixed MAC randomization with long
interface names
has caused the Debian Bug report #954861,
regarding activation failure with long interface names and MAC address
randomization
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Package: network-manager
Version: 1.6.2-3
Severity: wishlist
Dear Maintainer,
I think that Network-Manager default settings should be changed to default to
non-random MAC addresses on WiFi. Even though there are security reasons for
enabling this by default, this results in less "out of the box" support for
WiFi cards on fresh Debian installs and on Live CDs. Other GNU/Linux
distributions have this setting disabled by default.
* What led up to the situation?
I was using a live CD of Debian 9.2 with Gnome (written to a USB thumb rive),
and my wireless card was not connecting to my network, even though Network-
Manager was detecting both the card and the network. I tried a live CD for
Ubuntu 17.10 Gnome version, and it connected without issue. I investigated, and
saw that Ubuntu's live CD has a setting in
"/etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf" that is not present on Debian's
version:
[device]
wifi.scan-rand-mac-address=no
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
I added this setting to "/etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf" on my Debian
live CD, and after restarting Network Manager my wireless card connected to my
WiFi network without issue.
[device]
wifi.scan-rand-mac-address=no
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.2
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=
(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 3.115
ii dbus 1.10.22-0+deb9u1
ii init-system-helpers 1.48
ii libaudit1 1:2.6.7-2
ii libbluetooth3 5.43-2+deb9u1
ii libc6 2.24-11+deb9u1
ii libglib2.0-0 2.50.3-2
ii libgnutls30 3.5.8-5+deb9u3
ii libgudev-1.0-0 230-3
ii libjansson4 2.9-1
ii libmm-glib0 1.6.4-1
ii libndp0 1.6-1+b1
ii libnewt0.52 0.52.19-1+b1
ii libnl-3-200 3.2.27-2
ii libnm0 1.6.2-3
ii libpam-systemd 232-25+deb9u1
ii libpolkit-agent-1-0 0.105-18
ii libpolkit-gobject-1-0 0.105-18
ii libreadline7 7.0-3
ii libselinux1 2.6-3+b3
ii libsoup2.4-1 2.56.0-2+deb9u1
ii libsystemd0 232-25+deb9u1
ii libteamdctl0 1.26-1+b1
ii libuuid1 2.29.2-1
ii lsb-base 9.20161125
ii policykit-1 0.105-18
ii udev 232-25+deb9u1
ii wpasupplicant 2:2.4-1+deb9u1
Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
ii crda 3.18-1
ii dnsmasq-base 2.76-5+deb9u1
ii iptables 1.6.0+snapshot20161117-6
ii iputils-arping 3:20161105-1
ii isc-dhcp-client 4.3.5-3
ii modemmanager 1.6.4-1
ii ppp 2.4.7-1+4
Versions of packages network-manager suggests:
pn libteam-utils <none>
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--- Begin Message ---
Version: 2:2.9.0-12
> Control: unblock 895696 by -1
> Control: forcemerge 895696 870159
> Control: affects -1 firmware-ath9k-htc
> Control: reassign 895696 wpasupplicant
> Control: forcemerge -1 895696
>
> Debian bug number was missed in the changelog, but this has been fixed, and
> I can also report that this was also the cause of issues with ath9k-htc.
> I'm merging in those and will mark done momentarily.
>
> wpa (2:2.9.0-12) unstable; urgency=medium
>
> * Add an upstream patch to fix the MAC randomisation issue with some cards
> (LP: #1867908).
>
> -- Andrej Shadura <andre...@debian.org> Tue, 24 Mar 2020 11:13:16 +0100
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