[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#939294: Bug#939294: network-manager: After upgrade to 1.20.0-1, mac address of wlan0 is randomized

[Michael Biebl]

Am 03.09.19 um 00:03 schrieb Jörn Heissler:
> Package: network-manager
> Version: 1.20.0-1
> Severity: important
> 
> 
> Hello,
> I upgraded several packages, including network-manager (1.18.0-3 -> 1.20.0-1).
> During the upgrade, my wifi connection disconnected and wouldn't connect again.
> Luckily I wasn't doing the upgrade from remote ;-)
> 
> It appears that the mac address of my wlan0 device is now changed and my
> wifi router refused the new address because it got a whitelist.
> 
> There is no mention of this behaviour change in the docs and it's
> unclear how to disable/control this feature.
> 
> I suggest that this change is reverted or at least users should be made
> aware of it. And users should be pointed at relevant documentation.
> 
> In fact I'm not sure that network-manager is the culprit, but it's a
> likely candidate.

network-manager did always randomize the mac, unless you have a package
explicitly overriding this behaviour.

That said, this sounds like a driver bug. You should raise that with the
kernel package.

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