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Saturday 22 September 2018

Fix Network Device Name for Wireless USB Dongle on Linux

Bought an el-cheapo TP-LINK TL-WN722N for my Desktop Machine. Wanted to ask udev to give the name stick for this device.

  • Plug it in
  • lsusb -> Seeing it's at Bus 001 Device 005: ID 2357:010c TP-Link TL-WN722N v2
  • ip l to display what is the device's name -> wlp0s20f0u3
  • Get udev information on it: udevadm info -a -n /dev/bus/usb/001/005
  • Get the HW address: cat /sys/class/net/wlp0s20f0u3/address
  • Add SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", ATTR{address}=="HWADDR-COMES-HERE", NAME="stick" to /etc/udev/rules.d/10-network.rules
Special thanks for this:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Network_configuration#Change_interface_name