[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#823791: network-manager: Debian Stretch does NOT automatically establish a wireless connection for wireless USB adapter

[nicesw123]

Package: network-manager
Version: 1.2.0-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

on Debian Stretch, my wireless USB adapter (which needs firmware-realtek),
does NOT automatically establish a wireless connection.

Under the Gnome pop-up (click top-left screen edge), I do NOT see anything about wireless.

dmesg shows
~~~~~~~~~~~

[    5.742746] r8712u: module is from the staging directory, the quality is unknown, you have been warned.
[    5.744667] r8712u: register rtl8712_netdev_ops to netdev_ops
[    5.744680] usb 1-2: r8712u: USB_SPEED_HIGH with 4 endpoints
[    5.745025] usb 1-2: r8712u: Boot from EFUSE: Autoload OK
[    6.062112] usb 1-2: r8712u: CustomerID = 0x000a
[    6.062120] usb 1-2: r8712u: MAC Address from efuse = 00:87:33:55:3e:50
[    6.062124] usb 1-2: r8712u: Loading firmware from "rtlwifi/rtl8712u.bin"
[    6.062281] usbcore: registered new interface driver r8712u
[    6.065014] usb 1-2: firmware: direct-loading firmware rtlwifi/rtl8712u.bin
[    6.070499] r8712u 1-2:1.0 wlx008733553e50: renamed from wlan0






My current (manual) workaround: I need to manually issue this command:
sudo service network-manager restart
============================


Then  wireless appears in the Gnome pop-up and connects!

dmesg then shows:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
[   63.913619] e1000e: enp0s31f6 NIC Link is Down
[   64.085767] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlx008733553e50: link is not ready
[   64.787502] r8712u 1-2:1.0 wlx008733553e50: 1 RCR=0x153f00e
[   64.788051] r8712u 1-2:1.0 wlx008733553e50: 2 RCR=0x553f00e
[   64.891374] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlx008733553e50: link is not ready
[   64.897949] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): enp0s31f6: link is not ready
[   65.099325] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): enp0s31f6: link is not ready
[   65.176494] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlx008733553e50: link is not ready
[   75.638776] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlx008733553e50: link becomes ready


Thanks for any pointers.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.5.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (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                3.114
ii  dbus                   1.10.8-1
ii  init-system-helpers    1.31
ii  isc-dhcp-client        4.3.4-1
ii  libaudit1              1:2.4.5-1+b1
ii  libbluetooth3          5.36-1
ii  libc6                  2.22-7
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.48.0-1
ii  libgnutls30            3.4.11-4
ii  libgudev-1.0-0         230-3
ii  libmm-glib0            1.4.14-1
ii  libndp0                1.4-2
ii  libnewt0.52            0.52.18-3
ii  libnl-3-200            3.2.27-1
ii  libnm0                 1.2.0-1
ii  libpam-systemd         229-5
ii  libpolkit-agent-1-0    0.105-15
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0  0.105-15
ii  libreadline6           6.3-8+b4
ii  libselinux1            2.5-2
ii  libsoup2.4-1           2.54.1-1
ii  libsystemd0            229-5
ii  libteamdctl0           1.24-1
ii  libuuid1               2.28-1
ii  lsb-base               9.20160110
ii  policykit-1            0.105-15
ii  udev                   229-5
ii  wpasupplicant          2.3-2.3

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
ii  crda            3.13-1+b1
ii  dnsmasq-base    2.75-1
ii  iptables        1.6.0-2
ii  iputils-arping  3:20150815-2
ii  modemmanager    1.4.14-1
ii  ppp             2.4.7-1+2

Versions of packages network-manager suggests:
pn  libteam-utils  <none>

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf changed:
[main]
plugins=ifupdown,keyfile
[ifupdown]
managed=true


-- no debconf information