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

From	David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: how to activate my wireless card? nmtui only shows wireless connections . . .
Date	2023-03-05 21:40 +0100
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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.

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how to activate my wireless card? nmtui only shows wireless  connections . . . Albretch Mueller <lbrtchx@gmail.com> - 2023-03-03 16:50 +0100
  Re: how to activate my wireless card? nmtui only shows wireless  connections . . . Timothy M Butterworth <timothy.m.butterworth@gmail.com> - 2023-03-03 17:10 +0100
    Re: how to activate my wireless card? nmtui only shows wireless  connections . . . Albretch Mueller <lbrtchx@gmail.com> - 2023-03-03 18:10 +0100
      Re: how to activate my wireless card? nmtui only shows wireless  connections . . . Timothy M Butterworth <timothy.m.butterworth@gmail.com> - 2023-03-03 18:20 +0100
      Re: how to activate my wireless card? nmtui only shows wireless  connections . . . Christoph Brinkhaus <c.brinkhaus@t-online.de> - 2023-03-03 18:30 +0100
        Re: how to activate my wireless card? nmtui only shows wireless  connections . . . Albretch Mueller <lbrtchx@gmail.com> - 2023-03-03 22:50 +0100
          Re: how to activate my wireless card? nmtui only shows wireless  connections . . . Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2023-03-03 23:20 +0100
            Re: how to activate my wireless card? nmtui only shows wireless  connections . . . Albretch Mueller <lbrtchx@gmail.com> - 2023-03-04 09:10 +0100
          Re: how to activate my wireless card? nmtui only shows wireless  connections . . . David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2023-03-03 23:30 +0100
            Re: how to activate my wireless card? nmtui only shows wireless  connections . . . Albretch Mueller <lbrtchx@gmail.com> - 2023-03-04 01:10 +0100
              Re: how to activate my wireless card? nmtui only shows wireless  connections . . . David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2023-03-04 18:20 +0100
                Re: how to activate my wireless card? nmtui only shows wireless  connections . . . Albretch Mueller <lbrtchx@gmail.com> - 2023-03-05 03:50 +0100
                Re: how to activate my wireless card? nmtui only shows wireless  connections . . . David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2023-03-05 21:40 +0100
                Re: how to activate my wireless card? nmtui only shows wireless  connections . . . Albretch Mueller <lbrtchx@gmail.com> - 2023-03-05 22:00 +0100
                Re: how to activate my wireless card? nmtui only shows wireless  connections . . . David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2023-03-08 00:40 +0100
          Re: how to activate my wireless card? nmtui only shows wireless  connections . . . Timothy M Butterworth <timothy.m.butterworth@gmail.com> - 2023-03-04 00:40 +0100
            Re: how to activate my wireless card? nmtui only shows wireless  connections . . . Timothy M Butterworth <timothy.m.butterworth@gmail.com> - 2023-03-04 01:00 +0100
  Re: how to activate my wireless card? nmtui only shows wireless  connections . . . Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> - 2023-03-03 23:50 +0100
    Re: how to activate my wireless card? nmtui only shows wireless  connections . . . Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2023-03-04 00:20 +0100
      Re: how to activate my wireless card? nmtui only shows wireless  connections . . . Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> - 2023-03-04 07:10 +0100
        Re: how to activate my wireless card? nmtui only shows wireless  connections . . . David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2023-03-04 18:20 +0100
          Re: how to activate my wireless card? nmtui only shows wireless  connections . . . Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> - 2023-03-04 19:00 +0100
            Re: how to activate my wireless card? nmtui only shows wireless  connections . . . Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2023-03-05 18:30 +0100
              Re: how to activate my wireless card? nmtui only shows wireless connections . . . Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2023-03-05 20:30 +0100
                Re: how to activate my wireless card? nmtui only shows wireless  connections . . . Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2023-03-05 21:10 +0100
                Re: how to activate my wireless card? nmtui only shows wireless  connections . . . Albretch Mueller <lbrtchx@gmail.com> - 2023-03-05 21:20 +0100
                Re: how to activate my wireless card? nmtui only shows wireless  connections . . . David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2023-03-05 21:40 +0100
                Re: how to activate my wireless card? nmtui only shows wireless connections . . . Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2023-03-06 21:20 +0100
      Re: how to activate my wireless card? nmtui only shows wireless  connections . . . <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2023-03-04 07:40 +0100

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