Package: network-manager Version: 1.4.0-4 Severity: important Hi. I just upgraded stretch and got the new 4.7 kernel.
I have a Thinkpad X1 Carbon. Fn-F8 is the wifi hardware killswitch. When I first boot the machine, I see wifi networks in the Network Manager applet. If I disable wifi with Fn-F8, and re-enable wifi with Fn-F8, I see no networks. Before the upgrade, when I re-enabled wifi it would scan available networks and display them. Now it displays nothing. I cannot connect to anything. I can't choose any of my saved network connections, either. It is going to be inconvenient to reboot every time I need to use wifi. I prefer to turn the device off when I am not using it. Maybe the log below is relevant. I tried disabling and re-enabling again. A pending scan from the previous time got stuck? Is this related to the other bugs about randomly generating the MAC? How do I turn that off? I don't need that. Wouldn't it make me seem like I am a hostile node, to always be faking my MAC? The whole purpose of a MAC address is to have unique identifiers for each hardware device on a network, so that it isn't likely for two devices to try to use the same MAC and collide. Randomly changing the MAC as a default policy increases the possibility of MAC collisions. Thanks. Mark Oct 4 16:51:22 walnut wpa_supplicant[2659]: rfkill: WLAN soft blocked Oct 4 16:51:22 walnut wpa_supplicant[2659]: rfkill: WLAN soft blocked Oct 4 16:51:22 walnut NetworkManager[3952]: <info> [1475625082.1684] manager: WiFi now disabled by radio killswitch Oct 4 16:51:22 walnut wpa_supplicant[2659]: nl80211: deinit ifname=p2p-dev-wlp4s0 disabled_11b_rates=0 Oct 4 16:51:22 walnut NetworkManager[3952]: <info> [1475625082.1685] device (wlp4s0): state change: disconnected -> unavailable (reason 'none') [30 20 0] Oct 4 16:51:22 walnut systemd[1]: Starting Load/Save RF Kill Switch Status... Oct 4 16:51:22 walnut systemd[1]: Started Load/Save RF Kill Switch Status. Oct 4 16:51:22 walnut wpa_supplicant[2659]: nl80211: deinit ifname=wlp4s0 disabled_11b_rates=0 Oct 4 16:51:31 walnut NetworkManager[3952]: <info> [1475625091.5192] manager: WiFi now enabled by radio killswitch Oct 4 16:51:31 walnut kernel: [ 1102.716085] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: L1 Enabled - LTR Enabled Oct 4 16:51:31 walnut kernel: [ 1102.717372] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: L1 Enabled - LTR Enabled Oct 4 16:51:31 walnut systemd[1]: Starting Load/Save RF Kill Switch Status... Oct 4 16:51:31 walnut systemd[1]: Started Load/Save RF Kill Switch Status. Oct 4 16:51:31 walnut kernel: [ 1102.849546] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: L1 Enabled - LTR Enabled Oct 4 16:51:31 walnut kernel: [ 1102.850070] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: L1 Enabled - LTR Enabled Oct 4 16:51:31 walnut kernel: [ 1102.931906] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlp4s0: link is not ready Oct 4 16:51:31 walnut NetworkManager[3952]: <info> [1475625091.7941] sup-iface[0x123b6e0,wlp4s0]: supports 5 scan SSIDs Oct 4 16:51:31 walnut NetworkManager[3952]: <info> [1475625091.7952] device (wlp4s0): supplicant interface state: starting -> ready Oct 4 16:51:31 walnut NetworkManager[3952]: <info> [1475625091.7953] device (wlp4s0): state change: unavailable -> disconnected (reason 'supplicant-available') [20 30 42] Oct 4 16:51:31 walnut kernel: [ 1102.989589] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlp4s0: link is not ready Oct 4 16:51:34 walnut NetworkManager[3952]: <info> [1475625094.8022] device (wlp4s0): supplicant interface state: ready -> inactive Oct 4 16:51:57 walnut NetworkManager[3952]: <info> [1475625117.8568] device (wlp4s0): set-hw-addr: set MAC address to EE:B3:9D:D5:69:D6 (scanning) Oct 4 16:51:57 walnut kernel: [ 1129.063086] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlp4s0: link is not ready Oct 4 16:51:57 walnut NetworkManager[3952]: <info> [1475625117.8685] device (wlp4s0): supplicant interface state: inactive -> disabled Oct 4 16:51:57 walnut NetworkManager[3952]: <info> [1475625117.8981] device (wlp4s0): supplicant interface state: disabled -> inactive Oct 4 16:51:57 walnut wpa_supplicant[2659]: wlp4s0: Reject scan trigger since one is already pending ct 4 16:53:34 walnut NetworkManager[3952]: <info> [1475625214.7814] device (wlp4s0): supplicant interface state: inactive -> scanning -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.7.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (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 1.10.10-1 ii init-system-helpers 1.45 ii libaudit1 1:2.6.7-1 ii libbluetooth3 5.36-1+b2 ii libc6 2.24-3 ii libglib2.0-0 2.50.0-1 ii libgnutls30 3.5.4-2 ii libgudev-1.0-0 230-3 ii libmm-glib0 1.6.2-1 ii libndp0 1.6-1 ii libnewt0.52 0.52.18-3 ii libnl-3-200 3.2.27-1 ii libnm0 1.4.0-4 ii libpam-systemd 231-4 ii libpolkit-agent-1-0 0.105-16 ii libpolkit-gobject-1-0 0.105-16 ii libreadline6 6.3-8+b4 ii libselinux1 2.5-3 ii libsoup2.4-1 2.56.0-1 ii libsystemd0 231-4 ii libteamdctl0 1.26-1 ii libuuid1 2.28.2-1 ii lsb-base 9.20160629 ii policykit-1 0.105-16 ii udev 231-4 ii wpasupplicant 2.5-2+v2.4-3 Versions of packages network-manager recommends: ii crda 3.13-1+b1 ii dnsmasq-base 2.76-4 ii iptables 1.6.0-3 ii iputils-arping 3:20150815-2 ii isc-dhcp-client 4.3.5~b1-1 ii modemmanager 1.6.2-1 ii ppp 2.4.7-1+3 Versions of packages network-manager suggests: pn libteam-utils <none> -- no debconf information