wireless not working in strech

[nice sw123]

After an upgrade, wireless is no longer working in stretch.
(I was using a wireless adapter and needed package: firmware-realtek).

* network-manager does not show wireless

*
  sudo iwconfig
... shows wlx008733553eaa instead of wlan0

*
  dmesg
...shows "renamed from wlan0"

*
issung the command
  sudo ln -s /dev/null /etc/udev/rules.d/80-net-setup-link.rules
changed the name back to "wlan0"

But wireless still does not show in network-manager.

What can one do?
Thanks.

n.