Package: wpasupplicant
Version: 2:2.4-1+deb9u1
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
i am running a Debian 9 stretch up-to-date amd64 linux. I had an old wifi
adapter which broke sometimes the connection for whatever reason. I used to
configure my WLAN settings via /etc/network/interfaces. That seemed to work
fine. Even when using Gnome it seemed to work, although network-manager seemed
to be dead and not recognizing my Wifi stick. Then i bought a new wifi stick,
which i am running with an externally downloaded driver for rtl8812AU (my
chipset is rtl8811AU). I commented out the lines of my old wifi sticks ID and
placed the new wifi sticks id. That seemed to work and also Gnome network-
manager recognizes the new hardware now. But the connection is unreliable. It
sometimes breaks after sleep mode and it takes longer time to start up and
reconnect again. When i looked into journalctl log i found that wpasupplicant
is still using the id for my old WLAN stick although i have changed the
configuration in /etc/network/interfaces:
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# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).
source /etc/network/interfaces.d/*
# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
# The primary network interface
allow-hotplug wlxe09xxxx
iface wlxe09xxxx inet static
#allow-hotplug wlx0013xxxx
#iface wlx0013xxxx inet static
address 192.168.1.3
gateway 192.168.1.1
# dns-* options are implemented by the resolvconf package, if installed
dns-nameservers 192.168.1.2 192.168.1.7 4.4.4.4 8.8.8.8
wpa-ssid xxxxxxx
wpa-psk xxxxxxx
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It still reports in journalctl log the wlx0013xxxx interface which is commented
out, instead of the wlxe09xxxx interface, which is the new one. Could that be
one of the reasons for the non-satisfactory operation of my network connection?
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.4
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-6-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_AT.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_AT.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=de_AT.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages wpasupplicant depends on:
ii adduser 3.115
ii libc6 2.24-11+deb9u3
ii libdbus-1-3 1.10.26-0+deb9u1
ii libnl-3-200 3.2.27-2
ii libnl-genl-3-200 3.2.27-2
ii libpcsclite1 1.8.20-1
ii libreadline7 7.0-3
ii libssl1.0.2 1.0.2l-2+deb9u2
ii lsb-base 9.20161125
wpasupplicant recommends no packages.
Versions of packages wpasupplicant suggests:
pn libengine-pkcs11-openssl <none>
pn wpagui <none>
-- no debconf information
