On Wed 06 Jan 2016 at 13:56:57 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2016-01-02 16:21:11 +0000, Brian wrote: > > > > Move 70-persistent-net.rules somewhere and do > > > > rmmod -v <driver> > > > > followed by > > > > modprobe -v <driver> > > > > Repeat with 70-persistent-net.rules returned to /etc/udev/rules.d. Any > > changes in 'ls /sys/class/net/'? > > Well, I want to keep eth0 on my laptop because I have things > that depend on it. But what I was wondering is why I have > wlp61s0 instead of wlan0, i.e. why a rule for wlan0 hadn't > been added to 70-persistent-net.rules at that time.
Did the wireless interface name change using the above procedure? Custom interface naming can be done with a file in /etc/udev/rules.d. What is the content of yours? The udev README.Debian advises a prefix between 75 and 80 for this file.
