Package: wpasupplicant
Version: 2:2.6-7
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
Since the last upgrade of wpasupplicant, it does not anymore honor the
'default' interface config in /etc/network/interfaces (it is supposed to
fallback to it
as stated in wpasupplicant documentation).
So dhclient is not called, and IP is not configured.
I have the following stanza in /etc/default/interfaces:
-------
auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet manual
wpa-roam /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
wpa-roam-default-iface default
iface default inet dhcp
-------
And the following stanza in /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
-------
network={
ssid="sid5G"
psk="*****"
priority=32
}
-------
Before latest update to 2.6-7, it properly resorted to 'iface default inet
dhcp' in /etc/netwpork/interfaces in the following cases:
a) have no id_str option in /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf (as stated
above)
b) have id_str option in /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf, but the
corresponding 'iface XXX inet dhcp' is missing from /etc/default/interfaces
And it matched the documented behaviour.
Now after the upgrade with version 2.6-7, the ONLY way to make wpasupplicant to
automatically invoke dhclient, is using the id_str option for each the network
config AND having
the corresponding iface XXX inet dhcp' stanza in /etc/default/interfaces .
So for example, this is what ONLY now works:
stanza in /etc/default/interfaces:
-------
auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet manual
wpa-roam /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
wpa-roam-default-iface default
iface default inet dhcp
iface one-of-my-networks inet dhcp
-------
plus the following stanza in /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
-------
network={
ssid="sid5G"
psk="*****"
id_str="one-of-my-networks"
priority=32
}
-------
But providing separate id_str for all possible networks in
/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf and their corresponding "iface XXX inet
dhcp" entries in /etc/network/interfaces
is too clumsy to do with each known network (and unnecessarily clogs with extra
entries both the interfaces and wpa_supplicant.conf files).
And also does not anymore follow the roaming mode documented behaviour in
/usr/share/doc/wpa_supplicant/README.modes.gz
Thank you!
-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.13.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 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: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
Versions of packages wpasupplicant depends on:
ii adduser 3.116
ii libc6 2.25-2
ii libdbus-1-3 1.12.2-1
ii libnl-3-200 3.2.27-2
ii libnl-genl-3-200 3.2.27-2
ii libpcsclite1 1.8.22-1
ii libreadline7 7.0-3
ii libssl1.1 1.1.0g-2
ii lsb-base 9.20170808
wpasupplicant recommends no packages.
Versions of packages wpasupplicant suggests:
pn libengine-pkcs11-openssl <none>
ii wpagui 2:2.6-7
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