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

[David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk>]

On Sun 05 Mar 2023 at 21:22:10 (+0200), Anssi Saari wrote:
> Curt <curty@free.fr> writes:
> 
> > * UNPREDICTABILITY
> > it turns out even after all this [**an enumeration of complications and corner
> > cases**] there are still reported cases of interfaces changing their name on a
> > reboot.
> 
> I have just this fun kind of unpredictability in my router's 4G
> module. Mostly, it comes up as wwan0 but sometimes it's wwx<random>. So
> I put something in my 4G management script to rename such interface if
> there's no wwan0. Easier to force the interface name since I need to
> know the interface in the firewall and failover script too.

So what was wrong with using a .link file like:

  [Match]
  Type=wwan
  [Link]
  NamePolicy=keep kernel

or

  [Match]
  Type=wwan
  [Link]
  Name=my4g

Did this not work?

Cheers,
David.