[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#871949: network-manager: Wifi disconnects and reconnects often

[Paul Cobbaut]

Package: network-manager
Version: 1.30.0-1
Followup-For: Bug #871949
X-Debbugs-Cc: paul.cobbaut at gmail.com

Dear Maintainer,


   * What led up to the situation?

The disconnecting and reconnecting of the wifi happened also in the past (several months ago), but suddenly stopped. I update Debian every day. Some two weeks ago it started again. This is the same computer for three years now, same wifi, same location, same modem/router, same ISP, nothing changes except for the aptitude upgrade.

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?

I googled the problem a lot the past few days.
I added "wifi,powersafe=2' to NetworkManager.conf (because this is suggested in a forum).
I reinstalled broadcom-sta-dkms.
Yesterday I uninstalled dhclient (isc-dhcp-client), but that also makes no difference.
I upgrade Debian every day.

   * What was the outcome of this action?

No difference, the wifi keeps disconnecting (and reconnecting) often.

   * What outcome did you expect instead?

A stable wifi connection, these interrupts are distracting.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
ii  adduser          3.118
ii  dbus             1.12.20-2
ii  libaudit1        1:3.0-2
ii  libbluetooth3    5.55-3
ii  libc6            2.31-9
ii  libcurl3-gnutls  7.74.0-1.1
ii  libglib2.0-0     2.66.7-1
ii  libgnutls30      3.7.0-5
ii  libjansson4      2.13.1-1.1
ii  libmm-glib0      1.14.10-0.1
ii  libndp0          1.6-1+b1
ii  libnewt0.52      0.52.21-4+b3
ii  libnm0           1.30.0-1
ii  libpsl5          0.21.0-1.2
ii  libreadline8     8.1-1
ii  libselinux1      3.1-3
ii  libsystemd0      247.3-1
ii  libteamdctl0     1.31-1
ii  libudev1         247.3-1
ii  libuuid1         2.36.1-7
ii  policykit-1      0.105-30
ii  udev             247.3-1
ii  wpasupplicant    2:2.9.0-20

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
ii  dnsmasq-base [dnsmasq-base]  2.84-1
ii  iptables                     1.8.7-1
ii  libpam-systemd               247.3-1
ii  modemmanager                 1.14.10-0.1
ii  ppp                          2.4.9-1+1
ii  wireless-regdb               2020.04.29-2

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

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf changed:
[main]
plugins=ifupdown,keyfile
wifi.powersafe=2
[ifupdown]
managed=false


-- no debconf information