[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#817115: [network-manager] Wireless Device Support Regression (wext)

[Antonio Russo]

Package: network-manager
Version: 1.1.91-1
Severity: important

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After upgrade to 1.1.91-1, my Realktek RTL8191SU (with driver r8712u, which I believe is wext), is not visible at all to NetworkManager.

Reinstalling version 1.1.90-6 causes "nmcli dev" to show wlan0 again.

If there is an option to allow wext drivers to be used in NetworkManager, then this needs to be mentioned conspicuously in the changelog, at a
minimum.

Dropping support for a large class of networking device drivers represents a serious regression if there is no driver upgrade path.

--- System information. ---
Architecture: amd64
Kernel: Linux 4.4.0-1-amd64

Debian Release: stretch/sid
300 testing ftp.us.debian.org
251 unstable www.deb-multimedia.org
251 testing www.deb-multimedia.org
250 unstable ftp.us.debian.org
200 experimental ftp.us.debian.org

--- Package information. ---
Depends (Version) | Installed
=========================================-+-================
libc6 (>= 2.17) |
libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.0.2) |
libdbus-glib-1-2 (>= 0.102) |
libgcrypt11 (>= 1.4.5) |
libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.37.3) |
libgnutls-deb0-28 (>= 3.2.10-0) |
libgudev-1.0-0 (>= 165) |
libmm-glib0 (>= 1.0.0) |
libndp0 (>= 1.2) |
libnewt0.52 |
libnl-3-200 (>= 3.2.21) |
libnl-genl-3-200 (>= 3.2.21) |
libnl-route-3-200 (>= 3.2.7) |
libnm-glib4 (>= 0.9.10.0) |
libnm-util2 (>= 0.9.10.0) |
libpolkit-gobject-1-0 (>= 0.101) |
libreadline6 (>= 6.0) |
libsoup2.4-1 (>= 2.39.3) |
libsystemd-daemon0 (>= 31) |
libsystemd-login0 (>= 31) |
libuuid1 (>= 2.16) |
init-system-helpers (>= 1.18~) |
lsb-base (>= 3.2-14) |
wpasupplicant (>= 0.7.3-1) |
dbus (>= 1.1.2) |
udev |
adduser |
isc-dhcp-client (>= 4.1.1-P1-4) |
libpam-systemd |
policykit-1 |


Recommends (Version) | Installed
===========================-+-===========
ppp (>= 2.4.6) | 2.4.7-1+2
dnsmasq-base | 2.75-1
iptables | 1.6.0-2
modemmanager | 1.4.12-1
crda | 3.13-1+b1


Suggests (Version) | Installed
============================-+-===========
avahi-autoipd |




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