[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#961951: network-manager: MAC address is not assigned automatically to Ethernet over USB interface

[Michael Biebl]

On Mon, 1 Jun 2020 00:13:37 +0200 "alfa omega" <temporadis at mail.com> wrote:
> Package: network-manager
> Version: 1.14.6-2+deb10u1
> Severity: important
> Tags: a11y upstream
>  
> Dear Maintainer,
>  
> When I connect Ethernet over USB interface (Cellphone Tethering) the connection is not available in NetworkManager. Then I need to assign manull MAC address and then the connection becomes automatically.
>  
> To make useful the connection I need to run the following command as root:
>  
> root#link set dev  enp0s20f0u1 address 00:00:00:00:00:01
>  
> The MAC address (00:00:00:00:00:01) can be a random value.
>  
> /var/log/messages
> May 30 12:02:55 nameofpc kernel: rndis_host 1-1:1.0 eth0: register 'rndis_host' at usb-0000:00:14.0-1, RNDIS device, 00:00:00:00:00:00

So the kernel reports a MAC address that is 00:00:00:00:00:00?
This appears to be either a broken driver or hardware.

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