I have been running a wifi network connection on Fedora 19 – Kernel 3.9.7 – and was somewhat fed up with having to keep track of the byzantine magical interface renaming, each time I plugged the wifi dongle into a different usb port..     So… If you prefer good old wlan0 to wlp0s19f2u4 then read on!

The older ‘fix’ of adding biosdevname=0 to the kernel command line (and messing about with udev rules..) no longer works, so now just add:net.ifnames=0 to the kernel boot command line (via the grub configuration file), and then reboot..

Robert Gadsdon.   June 25, 2013