[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#839605: network-manager: wireless stuck on "link is not ready"

Sun Oct 2 19:25:56 UTC 2016

Package: network-manager
Version: 1.4.2-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

I'm running Debian Stretch and wireless usb-adapter (which needs firmware-realtek) does no longer work.

I've seen that sid (unstable) has newer packages of gir1.2-networkmanager-1.0 and network-manager
so I've tried them as well with pinning

  Package: *
  Pin: release a=stretch
  Pin-Priority: 500

  Package: *
  Pin: release a=unstable
  Pin-Priority: 499

and then

  sudo apt install gir1.2-networkmanager-1.0/unstable
  sudo apt install network-manager/unstable

But the sid packages have the same problem:

dmesg shows
  "link is not ready"

dmesg | grep 8712u
[   40.611495] r8712u: module is from the staging directory, the quality is unknown, you have been warned.
[   40.660397] r8712u: register rtl8712_netdev_ops to netdev_ops
[   40.660400] usb 1-1: r8712u: USB_SPEED_HIGH with 4 endpoints
[   40.660636] usb 1-1: r8712u: Boot from EFUSE: Autoload OK
[   40.975181] usb 1-1: r8712u: CustomerID = 0x000a
[   40.975190] usb 1-1: r8712u: MAC Address from efuse = 00:87:33:55:3e:50
[   40.975194] usb 1-1: r8712u: Loading firmware from "rtlwifi/rtl8712u.bin"
[   40.975271] usbcore: registered new interface driver r8712u
[   42.930440] usb 1-1: firmware: direct-loading firmware rtlwifi/rtl8712u.bin
[   42.932784] r8712u 1-1:1.0 wlx008733553e50: renamed from wlan0
[   48.977713] r8712u 1-1:1.0 wlx008733553e50: 1 RCR=0x153f00e
[   48.978324] r8712u 1-1:1.0 wlx008733553e50: 2 RCR=0x553f00e

dmesg | grep wlx 
[   42.932784] r8712u 1-1:1.0 wlx008733553e50: renamed from wlan0
[   48.269491] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlx008733553e50: link is not ready
[   48.977713] r8712u 1-1:1.0 wlx008733553e50: 1 RCR=0x153f00e
[   48.978324] r8712u 1-1:1.0 wlx008733553e50: 2 RCR=0x553f00e
[   50.281449] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlx008733553e50: link is not ready
[   51.889318] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlx008733553e50: link is not ready
[   52.003910] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlx008733553e50: link is not ready
[   53.613179] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlx008733553e50: link is not ready
[   55.249030] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlx008733553e50: link is not ready
[   56.912905] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlx008733553e50: link is not ready
[   58.540726] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlx008733553e50: link is not ready
[   60.200509] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlx008733553e50: link is not ready
[   61.852474] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlx008733553e50: link is not ready
[   63.496311] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlx008733553e50: link is not ready
[   65.132165] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlx008733553e50: link is not ready
[   66.776040] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlx008733553e50: link is not ready
[   68.427897] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlx008733553e50: link is not ready
[   70.071748] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlx008733553e50: link is not ready
[   71.683607] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlx008733553e50: link is not ready
[   73.335501] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlx008733553e50: link is not ready
[   74.975217] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlx008733553e50: link is not ready
[   76.631188] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlx008733553e50: link is not ready
[   78.290901] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlx008733553e50: link is not ready

etc.

What can I do about this?

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (499, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.7.0-1-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                3.115
ii  dbus                   1.10.10-1
ii  init-system-helpers    1.45
ii  libaudit1              1:2.6.6-1
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>

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

-- no debconf information