Re: how to activate my wireless card? nmtui only shows wireless connections . . .
On Fri, Mar 3, 2023 at 6:10 PM Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> wrote:
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> 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'.
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> 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
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