Re: how to activate my wireless card? nmtui only shows wireless connections . . .

[Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Mar 3, 2023 at 6:10 PM Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Mar 03, 2023 at 05:45:54PM -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> > The 'p' is a pci bus, the 's' is a slot number. Since the interface
> > does not move around once installed, the interface will always have
> > the same name like 'enp4s0'.
>
> That's a wonderful idea, but it doesn't quite work in practice.  There are
> ways that a "predictable" interface name may change.  A BIOS/firmware
> upgrade can do it.  Adding or removing devices can also do it, in
> some cases.  They don't even have to be network interfaces.

Yeah, that's udev and systemd screwing things up.

Jeff