[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#835553: WiFi authentication fails in 1.6.2 as well

[Shreepad Shukla]

Hi

I have the same problem and the fix is the same as well, but the details
are different:

- Debian Stretch 9.1 64 bit
- Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.30-2+deb9u3 (2017-08-06)
x86_64 GNU/Linux
- NetworkManager 1.6.2
- wpa_supplicant v2.4 using driver nl80211 and firmware mt7601u.bin
(installed from Debian non free package firmware-misc-nonfree)
- Device: ID 148f:7601 Ralink Technology, Corp. MT7601U Wireless
Adapter (essentially a USB wifi dongle with an antenna)

Didn't mess around with any wpa supplicant conf or network config,
just plugged in, set the password and monitored the daemon logs after
setting the log level from the wpa_cli to msgdump.

In the daemon.log I get:
wpa_supplicant[590]: nl80211: Drv Event 37 (NL80211_CMD_AUTHENTICATE)
received for wlxe...
wpa_supplicant[590]: nl80211: MLME event 37 (NL80211_CMD_AUTHENTICATE)
on wlxe...(aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff) A1=11:22:33:44:55:66
A2=zz:ff:ee:dd:cc:bb
wpa_supplicant[590]: nl80211: wlxe...: Ignore MLME frame event for
foreign address
wpa_supplicant[590]: wlxe...: SME: Authentication timeout

Workaround is to set wifi mac randomisation off in NetworkManager.conf
as described above.

Have added the above on the upstream bug at
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=771966

Regards
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