[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] wpasupplicant: NetworkManager reports unknown keys in configuration drop-in `no-mac-addr-change.conf`

[Paul Menzel]

[Adding pkg-utopia-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org]

Dear Debian folks,


NetworkManager includes a configuration example upstream [1].

```
# Certain drivers are known not to support changing the MAC address.
# Disable touching the MAC address on such devices.
#
# See man NetworkManager.conf
#
# https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=777523
[device-31-mac-addr-change]
match-device=driver:eagle_sdio,driver:wl
wifi.scan-rand-mac-address=no

[connection-31-mac-addr-change]
# These are defaults for the connection profile. Here we set only the default
# value. Note that the default value already should be "preserve", so this has
# no actual effect.
#
# Also note that this is only the default. Per-profile settings still take
# precedence.
match-device=driver:eagle_sdio,driver:wl
wifi.cloned-mac-address=preserve
```

This could be used as drop-in example.

The NetworkManager upstream developer Thomas Haller suggests, to
ship the configuration in the NetworkManager package though.

Also, he has no knowledge that the Realtek drivers need to be
fixed up.


Kind regards,

Paul


[1]: https://cgit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/tree/examples/nm-conf.d/31-mac-addr-change.conf

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