wifi internet lost after dist-upgrade in testing [SOLVED]

[lucianomoffatt]

I did a new installation and after a single apt-get dist-ugrade, wich installed three new packages and updated about another forty,I lost my wifi internet connection again. Cable internet worked fine.

I suspect it has something to do with firmware-linux-free so I did an apt-get remove and I re installed the package firmare-realtek without luck.

I re-installed the last testing from scratch and I recovered wifi internet.

I could try to find the guilty package by installing one by one, but I was not in the mood of having to reinstall it.

So, what could I do to report this problem to help it to be solved?

Thanks

[airborne_rodent]

What you could do is to (using cable) read this forum before wiping your Debian:) Now anyway, check here: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=131346

[lucianomoffatt]

Yeah, I have already wiped debian twice.
It seems that posting here would have been faster than doing that!!

So, now I have a working wireless using kernel 4.8.
The thing is that right now if I do
luciano@dbLuciano:~$ apt-listbugs list linux-image-4.9.0-1-amd64
Obteniendo informes de fallo... Finalizado
Analizando información Encontrada/Corregida... Finalizado

It says that there are no errors. So, someone should change that and prevent people into installing kernel 4.9 until it is fixed.
How can I do that?

[Segfault]

Linux is an open book, nothing is hidden. Re-install is a bad habit from using "another operating system" too long. Anything in Linux can be troubleshooted and fixed. (With exception of systemd issues, I have seen a report by a very tech savvy person who couldn't figure out why systemd craps out during boot.)

[stevepusser]

This could be restricted to your particular wireless device and driver. I'm using a 4.9 backported Liquorix kernel on a Jessie base and don't see that at all with my wifi. Could you install inxi and report the output of

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inxi -Nx

[marcetm]

The thing is that right now if I do
luciano@dbLuciano:~$ apt-listbugs list linux-image-4.9.0-1-amd64
Obteniendo informes de fallo... Finalizado
Analizando información Encontrada/Corregida... Finalizado

It says that there are no errors. So, someone should change that and prevent people into installing kernel 4.9 until it is fixed.
How can I do that?

Do you mean we should report a bug?

[lucianomoffatt]

The thing is that right now if I do
luciano@dbLuciano:~$ apt-listbugs list linux-image-4.9.0-1-amd64
Obteniendo informes de fallo... Finalizado
Analizando información Encontrada/Corregida... Finalizado

It says that there are no errors. So, someone should change that and prevent people into installing kernel 4.9 until it is fixed.
How can I do that?

Do you mean we should report a bug?

Yes, exactly, so other people could be aware of the problem and wait until installation of the new kernel does not produce unwanted side effects.
I was trying to file the bug, but I have never done that.

[lucianomoffatt]

This could be restricted to your particular wireless device and driver. I'm using a 4.9 backported Liquorix kernel on a Jessie base and don't see that at all with my wifi. Could you install inxi and report the output of

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inxi -Nx

here is the output:

$ inxi -Nx
Network: Card-1: Realtek RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter driver: rtl8192ce port: e000 bus-ID: 02:00.0
Card-2: JMicron JMC250 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller
driver: jme v: 1.0.8 ports: d100 d000 bus-ID: 03:00.0

[stevepusser]

Some web searching shows that the rtl8192ce driver is having problems with the 4.9 kernel on pretty much all distros. You might be able to get it working for you by editing a configuration file, like in this thread:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1415339#c20

Or perhaps you could try building and installing this driver, and blacklisting the rtl8192ce module: https://github.com/FreedomBen/rtl8188ce-linux-driver

[marcetm]

I was trying to file the bug, but I have never done that.

Neither I do, but there's always a first time for every thing... I will try to, even though I don't know where start from...

[GarryRicketson]

by lucianomoffatt »I was trying to file the bug, but I have never done that.

Maybe also never used a search engine,..?
How to report a bug on Debian

First hit,
https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting
but there are more,...Usually if one reads the documentation , they can learn something new.

[ksu]

I did a fresh install using netboot/pxe of 9... chosen more packages that I need. Ended up with no 'ifconfig' available.
I guess that's something that should be addressed.

Mike

[ksu]

edit: post removed by me...

[pylkko]

you have to realize that it is somewhat pointless to test the testing version and not report bugs that you find.

[Bulkley]

you have to realize that it is somewhat pointless to test the testing version and not report bugs that you find.

+1

[lucianomoffatt]

you have to realize that it is somewhat pointless to test the testing version and not report bugs that you find.

+1

I just filed the bug
Bug#854353: linux-image-4.9.0-1-amd64: wifi internet is lost, using driver rtl8192ce

[airborne_rodent]

you have to realize that it is somewhat pointless to test the testing version and not report bugs that you find.

That's a very good point. However, sometimes even those of us who've done it a zillion times (i.e. reported bugs) might get lost as to e.g. which package should the bug be reported against. [For example, right now I'm facing an issue with Firefox which I'm strongly suspecting is in fact the fault of xorg:) ]

So I guess if I for example don't report bugs, abovementioned uncertainty might be one of the reasons.

[pylkko]

But there are often bugs reported against wrong packages... If it is demonstrated that the bug is due to another package, the report can be reassigned. I don't think it is a good idea to hold back discussion about the issue just because you are not sure exact what is causing it.

[lucianomoffatt]

Following a suggestion of marcetm, I created the archive
/etc/modprobe.d/rtl8192ce.conf,
containing the single following line:
options rtl8192ce ips=0 fwlps=0

I did a dist-upgrade and wifi is still active after a reboot.

So I could say that the problem is SOLVED