[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#879484: Network-Manager should Default to Non-Random MAC Address on WiFi

[Diego Escalante Urrelo]

FWIW, I almost completely gave up before I ran into the NM bugzilla
describing how some drivers break with rand-mac.

I even went and bought a USB dongle to try and get Debian (or
anything) running on wifi, but that didn't work either because the
driver suffers the same problem than wl.

I have edited my
/usr/lib/NetworkManager/conf.d/no-mac-addr-change.conf to also have
the following three driver: matches.

   [device-mac-addr-change-wifi]
   match-device=(...),driver:wl,driver:rtl8192eu,driver:rtl8xxxu

I would propose adding this change to that file because otherwise it's
impossible to get Debian working on those cards unless you know a lot
about the desktop stack, or you are extremely good with googling.

For context:
* the 'wl' driver is broadcom-sta, and is used by many MacBook Pro
Retina (mine is MacBookPro11,1).
* rtl8192eu[1] is a maintenance fork that works slightly better than
rtl8xxxu on the USB dongle I got, and rtl8xxxu seems to be an ever
popular driver for cheap USB dongles.

USB dongle (works with rtl8xxxu and rtl8192eu):
Bus 001 Device 008: ID 2357:0109 TP-Link TL WN823N RTL8192EU

MacBookPro wifi (works with wl):
03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Limited BCM4360 802.11ac
Wireless Network Adapter [14e4:43a0] (rev 03)

1 - rtl8192eu fork: https://github.com/Mange/rtl8192eu-linux-driver