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

[nice sw123]

This bug problem is: wlan wireless is not working,
dmesg reports"link is not ready",
and "Select Network" is not showing the network...

It might be related to the new kernel on debian stretch: currently
linux kernel 4.7 (4.7.0-1-amd64)


A WORKAROUND (thanks to my boss at work) is to specify your wireless
network as hidden network. Just do it, even if it is not really
hidden.
It's the only way I've found, to get it working. So:

Click Wi-Fi settings
Click Connect to Hidden Network...
If your connection is already stored (from before, when it was
working), then you'll find the wireless Network name under Connection.
Else enter "Network name", "Wi-Fi Security" (typically WPA & WPA2
Personal), "Password".

Then it will work. Only then does the network appear under "Select Network"!