Package: network-manager Version: 1.6.2-3 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer,
I think that Network-Manager default settings should be changed to default to non-random MAC addresses on WiFi. Even though there are security reasons for enabling this by default, this results in less "out of the box" support for WiFi cards on fresh Debian installs and on Live CDs. Other GNU/Linux distributions have this setting disabled by default. * What led up to the situation? I was using a live CD of Debian 9.2 with Gnome (written to a USB thumb rive), and my wireless card was not connecting to my network, even though Network- Manager was detecting both the card and the network. I tried a live CD for Ubuntu 17.10 Gnome version, and it connected without issue. I investigated, and saw that Ubuntu's live CD has a setting in "/etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf" that is not present on Debian's version: [device] wifi.scan-rand-mac-address=no * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? I added this setting to "/etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf" on my Debian live CD, and after restarting Network Manager my wireless card connected to my WiFi network without issue. [device] wifi.scan-rand-mac-address=no -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.2 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE= (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages network-manager depends on: ii adduser 3.115 ii dbus 1.10.22-0+deb9u1 ii init-system-helpers 1.48 ii libaudit1 1:2.6.7-2 ii libbluetooth3 5.43-2+deb9u1 ii libc6 2.24-11+deb9u1 ii libglib2.0-0 2.50.3-2 ii libgnutls30 3.5.8-5+deb9u3 ii libgudev-1.0-0 230-3 ii libjansson4 2.9-1 ii libmm-glib0 1.6.4-1 ii libndp0 1.6-1+b1 ii libnewt0.52 0.52.19-1+b1 ii libnl-3-200 3.2.27-2 ii libnm0 1.6.2-3 ii libpam-systemd 232-25+deb9u1 ii libpolkit-agent-1-0 0.105-18 ii libpolkit-gobject-1-0 0.105-18 ii libreadline7 7.0-3 ii libselinux1 2.6-3+b3 ii libsoup2.4-1 2.56.0-2+deb9u1 ii libsystemd0 232-25+deb9u1 ii libteamdctl0 1.26-1+b1 ii libuuid1 2.29.2-1 ii lsb-base 9.20161125 ii policykit-1 0.105-18 ii udev 232-25+deb9u1 ii wpasupplicant 2:2.4-1+deb9u1 Versions of packages network-manager recommends: ii crda 3.18-1 ii dnsmasq-base 2.76-5+deb9u1 ii iptables 1.6.0+snapshot20161117-6 ii iputils-arping 3:20161105-1 ii isc-dhcp-client 4.3.5-3 ii modemmanager 1.6.4-1 ii ppp 2.4.7-1+4 Versions of packages network-manager suggests: pn libteam-utils <none> -- no debconf information