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and subject line Bug#768189: fixed in macchanger 1.7.0-4
has caused the Debian Bug report #768189,
regarding should not automatically change MAC (w/o user consent)
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Package: macchanger
Version: 1.7.0-2
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
I upgraded to macchanger version 1.7.0-2 on Saturday, and it completely
broke my wifi. I believe this is due to the new feature, where it
automatic changes the MAC address every time I connect.
I use Network Manager and the symptoms I experienced were as follows: I
was unable to connect to a wireless network a second time after an
initial connection (e.g. after resume from sleep, or simply by selecting
any network from the nm-applet menu) -- at least not without a long
delay between connection attempts. It affected both WPA and unencrypted
networks.
Using wpa_supplicant (or iwconfig) by itself (along with dhclient)
worked fine, presumably because this did not run the scripts in if-pre-up.d.
Please make this new feature of macchanger more visible (for example, by
mentioning it in the package description) and consider asking the user
at install time whether they want it enabled or not (for example, using
debconf).
I'm sorry if I come off as exasperated, demanding, and bordering on rude
-- this is a nice feature to have, but it didn't work for me and I spent
a lot of time over the past few days trying to figure out why my wifi
was all but unusable.
Thank you.
In case it's a hardware-specific problem, my wireless card is:
02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM43224
802.11a/b/g/n [14e4:4353] (rev 01)
I tried kernel versions 3.16-2-amd64 and 3.16-3-amd64. I tried both the
open-source brcmsmac driver and the propriatary wl driver (versions
6.30.223.248-1 and 6.30.223.248-2). This did not appear to make a
difference. The issue affected wpasupplicant versions 2.2-1 and 2.3-1.
rc macchanger 1.7.0-2
ii network-manager 0.9.10.0-3
ii wpasupplicant 2.2-1
ii broadcom-sta-dkms 6.30.223.248-1
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.16-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages macchanger depends on:
ii dpkg 1.17.13
ii install-info 5.2.0.dfsg.1-5
ii libc6 2.19-12
macchanger recommends no packages.
macchanger suggests no packages.
--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---
Source: macchanger
Source-Version: 1.7.0-4
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
macchanger, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Hans-Christoph Steiner <[email protected]> (supplier of updated macchanger package)
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Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 12:07:44 +0100
Source: macchanger
Binary: macchanger
Architecture: source amd64
Version: 1.7.0-4
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: David Paleino <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Hans-Christoph Steiner <[email protected]>
Description:
macchanger - utility for manipulating the MAC address of network interfaces
Closes: 768189
Changes:
macchanger (1.7.0-4) unstable; urgency=low
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* add debconf option to prompt whether to automatically run (Closes: #768189)
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