[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#624438: network-manager: workaround

[tomas k]

Package: network-manager
Followup-For: Bug #624438
X-Debbugs-Cc: forensic at wi.rr.com

Dear Maintainer,

I've been dealing with this problem with one upgrade--buster to bullseye--and one new 
install of bullseye 11. It seems I must install the correct firmware, 
which I already knew, load the driver with modporobe, and then reboot.

But there is still the problem that it will lose the wifi interface 
with subsequent reboots. I have not demonstrated that with the 
new install, but with the upgrade I did.

So, work needs to be done, because it's not as simple as installing
a few packages to get the interface set up once and for all. And 
this type of behavior is very unlike modern Debian, so users have no
experience with it.   

I'm not positive it's even a nm bug. But nm cannot find the wifi interface, 
because it doesn't exist.   

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-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.1
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-9-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
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    5.55-3.1
ii  libc6            2.31-13+deb11u2
ii  libcurl3-gnutls  7.74.0-1.3+b1
ii  libglib2.0-0     2.66.8-1
ii  libgnutls30      3.7.1-5
ii  libjansson4      2.13.1-1.1
ii  libmm-glib0      1.14.12-0.2
ii  libndp0          1.6-1+b1
ii  libnewt0.52      0.52.21-4+b3
ii  libnm0           1.30.0-2
ii  libpsl5          0.21.0-1.2
ii  libreadline8     8.1-1
ii  libselinux1      3.1-3
ii  libsystemd0      247.3-6
ii  libteamdctl0     1.31-1
ii  libudev1         247.3-6
ii  libuuid1         2.36.1-8
ii  policykit-1      0.105-31
ii  udev             247.3-6
ii  wpasupplicant    2:2.9.0-21

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
ii  dnsmasq-base [dnsmasq-base]  2.85-1
ii  iptables                     1.8.7-1
ii  libpam-systemd               247.3-6
ii  modemmanager                 1.14.12-0.2
ii  ppp                          2.4.9-1+1
ii  wireless-regdb               2020.04.29-2

Versions of packages network-manager suggests:
ii  isc-dhcp-client  4.4.1-2.3
pn  libteam-utils    <none>

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