[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#842422: network-manager: NetworkManager fails to authenticate with old 802.11bg USB devices

[bw123]

Package: network-manager
Version: 1.6.2-1
Followup-For: Bug #842422

Dear Maintainer,

Found this bug on latest version, two workarounds:

add this to /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf
per bug #835553

[device]
wifi.scan-rand-mac-address=no

or as mentioned above, boot with kernel parameter
net.ifnames=0

I'm using an older realtek dongle:
$ lsusb -v | grep real
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0846:4260 NetGear, Inc. WG111v3 54 Mbps Wireless [realtek RTL8187B]
  idProduct          0x4260 WG111v3 54 Mbps Wireless [realtek RTL8187B]
 
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (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                   1.10.14-1
ii  init-system-helpers    1.47
ii  libaudit1              1:2.6.7-1
ii  libbluetooth3          5.43-1
ii  libc6                  2.24-8
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.50.2-2
ii  libgnutls30            3.5.8-1
ii  libgudev-1.0-0         230-3
ii  libjansson4            2.9-1
ii  libmm-glib0            1.6.4-1
ii  libndp0                1.6-1
ii  libnewt0.52            0.52.19-1
ii  libnl-3-200            3.2.27-1
ii  libnm0                 1.6.2-1
ii  libpam-systemd         232-14
ii  libpolkit-agent-1-0    0.105-17
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0  0.105-17
ii  libreadline7           7.0-1
ii  libselinux1            2.6-3
ii  libsoup2.4-1           2.56.0-2
ii  libsystemd0            232-14
ii  libteamdctl0           1.26-1
ii  libuuid1               2.29-1
ii  lsb-base               9.20161125
ii  policykit-1            0.105-17
ii  udev                   232-14
ii  wpasupplicant          2.5-2+v2.4-3+b1

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
pn  crda             <none>
pn  dnsmasq-base     <none>
ii  iptables         1.6.0+snapshot20161117-4
pn  iputils-arping   <none>
ii  isc-dhcp-client  4.3.5-3
pn  modemmanager     <none>
ii  ppp              2.4.7-1+4

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

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf changed:
[main]
plugins=ifupdown,keyfile
[ifupdown]
managed=false
[device]
wifi.scan-rand-mac-address=no


-- no debconf information