Bug#893283: firmware-ipw2x00: ipw2x00 firmware: MAC changes everytime WIFI reconnect

["Francisco J. Blanco" <fjblanco@ucm.es>]

Package: firmware-ipw2x00
Version: 20170823-1
Severity: normal

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-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 4.14.0-3-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=es_ES.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_ES.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=es_ES.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages firmware-ipw2x00 depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.66

firmware-ipw2x00 recommends no packages.

Versions of packages firmware-ipw2x00 suggests:
ii  initramfs-tools  0.130

-- debconf information:
* firmware-ipw2x00/license/accepted: true
  firmware-ipw2x00/license/error:

Hi,

I've installed Debian 'Stretch' on my Acer Aspire 1690 laptop. For use wireless, I had to add 'nonfree' in apt sources and install 'firmware-ipw2x00'.

Everything worked fine, but I discovered that on every boot or everytime WiFi reconnect, MAC had changed.

In dmesg I find:

[   16.812290] ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.2.2kmprq
[   16.812294] ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
[   16.812735] ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
[   16.983621] ipw2200: 0000:06:03.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware ipw2200-bss.fw
[   17.122875] ipw2200: Detected geography ZZM (11 802.11bg channels, 0 802.11a channels)

And, randomly, so many:

ipw2200: Firmware error detected. Restarting.
...

I've update to Debian 'Buster', but 'MAC changes' continue.

Regards.