Stretch wifi issues (self.debian)
submitted 4 months ago by [deleted]
Hey guys,
I’m using debian stretch. I have a usb wifi dongle using atheros. I’m using network manager to control the connections.
Today my usb wifi adapter stopped being able to connect, but only on debian. I can get a connection going with my pci card, but it still has issues, so I don’t think the problem is the atheros firmware.
There were some recent updates, could be an issue.
Anyone experiencing something similar? I tried to do some quick poking around, but didn’t see any similar issues/resolutions.
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[–]emperordada 2 points 4 months ago
I recently came across a situation like that with my own wireless atheros adapter on stretch and if your case is the same as mine, your problems come from the random MAC address randomization feature that was added in network-manager 1.4, which recently became available on stretch. To disable it, add the following to your /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf and restart NetworkManager.service:
[device]
wifi.scan-rand-mac-address=no
Source: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=836351
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[–][deleted] 1 point 4 months ago
I will check that out, thanks for the info!
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[–][deleted] 1 point 4 months ago
That resolved my issue, thank you again.
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[–]dotnetdotcom 1 point 4 months ago
Thanks. This solution fixed my connection problem with AVLinux-based on Debian 8.
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[–]gnuworldorder 1 point 4 months ago
Are you using cinnamon? I recently installed it to play around with it again and it kills my network manager. The strange part is if I change to mate network manager works
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[–][deleted] 1 point 4 months ago
I’m using plasma
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Cette solution fonctionne pour moi pour l’instant
Bonne journée
Olivier
