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

[tomas k]

On Wed, 2021-11-17 at 04:42 -0500, tomas k wrote:
> 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.   
> 
It doesn't exist because the firmware isn't loading. Intel's newest
wifi chips "Killer" have no specific support in stable. And make sure
your PCIe slots aren't stomping on each other. I always put wifi in the
first slot. There's also github.com Intel wifi drivers
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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>
> 
> -- no debconf information