{"id":750,"date":"2013-06-25T16:46:28","date_gmt":"2013-06-25T15:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=750"},"modified":"2013-06-25T18:31:58","modified_gmt":"2013-06-25T17:31:58","slug":"stop-the-insanity-keep-simple-network-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=750","title":{"rendered":"Stop the Insanity! &#8211; Keep Simple Network Interface Names.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">I have been running a wifi network connection on Fedora 19 &#8211; Kernel 3.9.7 &#8211; 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..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 So&#8230; If you prefer good old <strong>wlan0<\/strong> to <strong>wlp0s19f2u4<\/strong> then read on!<code><\/code><\/span><code> <code><\/code><\/code><\/p>\n<p>The older &#8216;fix&#8217; of adding <em>biosdevname=0<\/em> to the kernel command line (and messing about with udev rules..) no longer works, so now just add:<em><strong>net.ifnames=0<\/strong><\/em> to the kernel boot command line (via the grub configuration file), and then reboot..<\/p>\n<p><em>Robert Gadsdon.\u00a0\u00a0 June 25, 2013<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been running a wifi network connection on Fedora 19 &#8211; Kernel 3.9.7 &#8211; 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..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 So&#8230; If you prefer good old wlan0 to wlp0s19f2u4 then read on! The older <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=750\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10,11,14,15,20],"tags":[529,527,531,242,530,532,528],"class_list":["post-750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compilation","category-fedora","category-hacks","category-kernel","category-linux-2","category-performance-2","tag-biosdevnames","tag-fedora-19","tag-kernel-command-line","tag-linux","tag-net-ifnames","tag-solved","tag-stop-network-device-renaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=750"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions\/754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}