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

[Noël Köthe]

Hello Andrew,

Am Dienstag, den 05.12.2017, 08:57 +0100 schrieb Andrew Shadura:

> > 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.

> Just to be sure, are you absolutely sure it doesn't work with the
> latest wpasupplicant without the NM snippet? 

Yes. Wifi worked until Tue or Wed last week and with my daily sid
update I didn't get it working again. Module unloading and loading or
network-manager restarts or complete reboots didn't helped.
Until yesterday when I added the NM lines again.

> I have put a similar one
> into the wpasupplicant package, but a driver-specific one.

OK.

> Could you please let me know what driver are you using?

wl module/driver with the broadcom-sta-dkms 6.30.223.271-7

03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Limited BCM4360 802.11ac Wireless
Network Adapter (rev 03) on a MacBook Pro
03:00.0 0280: 14e4:43a0 (rev 03)

> You should be able to find out by running:
> 
> nmcli -f GENERAL.DRIVER,GENERAL.DRIVER-VERSION device show

# nmcli -f GENERAL.DRIVER,GENERAL.DRIVER-VERSION device show
GENERAL.DRIVER: tg3
GENERAL.DRIVER-VERSION: 3.137

GENERAL.DRIVER: wl
GENERAL.DRIVER-VERSION: 6.30.223.271 (r587334)

GENERAL.DRIVER: bridge
GENERAL.DRIVER-VERSION: 2.3

GENERAL.DRIVER: unknown
GENERAL.DRIVER-VERSION: --

GENERAL.DRIVER: tun
GENERAL.DRIVER-VERSION: 1.6

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

network-manager 1.10.0-1

It is a sid system with no package on hold.

If I can help you with more information just tell me.

Regards

Noël

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

[Andrew Shadura]

On 4 December 2017 at 20:29, Noël Köthe  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