So, I rebuilt at git master with --with-wext=yes (which was a mistake, I don't think it's needed), and now everything works. Some bug must have been introduced between beta1 and beta2, which has been resolved as of b36d7215255f2adb43341c15d438609d4087cc32 . Assuming I read the git history correctly.
I might also have removed some conflicting patches from debian/patches . I'll rebuild the package more carefully later tonight or tomorrow and confirm what precise changes I made. I don't see any reason to git-bisect, since someone else presumably already found and fixed this bug. Antonio
