Disable MAC address randomization on Live system
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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network-manager (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I'm using the pre-release version of artful 17.10 and network manager 1.8.2-1ubuntu2 Much like in Debian Stretch, network-manager is set to use the random mac address feature of network manager, which doesn't allow certain wifi cards/ routers to work together. See Debian bug 836351. I think this feature should be disabled on a live cd, because it isn't fixable during an install and it might cause a user just to give up and not install Ubuntu.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: network-manager 1.8.2-1ubuntu2
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 4.12.0-11-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.6-0ubuntu5
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: MATE
Date: Sat Aug 19 14:00:17 2017
IfupdownConfig:
# interfaces(5) file used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8)
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-08-19 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-MATE 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Alpha amd64 (20170818)
IpRoute:
default via 192.168.1.1 dev wlxec086b17f6d1 proto static metric 600
169.254.0.0/16 dev wlxec086b17f6d1 scope link metric 1000
192.168.1.0/24 dev wlxec086b17f6d1 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.4 metric 600
NetworkManager.
[main]
NetworkingEnab
WirelessEnable
WWANEnabled=true
RfKill:
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
SourcePackage: network-manager
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
mtime.conffile.
nmcli-con:
NAME UUID TYPE TIMESTAMP TIMESTAMP-REAL AUTOCONNECT AUTOCONNECT-
556F02 72b161b9-
Wired connection 1 1d860881-
nmcli-dev:
DEVICE TYPE STATE DBUS-PATH CONNECTION CON-UUID CON-PATH
wlxec086b17f6d1 wifi connected /org/freedeskto
eno1 ethernet unavailable /org/freedeskto
lo loopback unmanaged /org/freedeskto
nmcli-nm:
RUNNING VERSION STATE STARTUP CONNECTIVITY NETWORKING WIFI-HW WIFI WWAN-HW WWAN
running 1.8.2 connected started full enabled enabled enabled enabled enabled
summary: |
- bad default setting + Disable MAC address randomization on Live system |
tags: | removed: artful |
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.