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SealsRock12

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Registered: 2018-04-03

Posts: 83

[SOLVED] Switch To wlan0

Is there any way to switch from wlp3s0 to wlan0?

Output of ip a:

$ ip a
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
    inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
    inet6 ::1/128 scope host 
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: wlp3s0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 8c:70:5a:fe:f4:18 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    inet 10.0.0.6/24 brd 10.0.0.255 scope global dynamic noprefixroute wlp3s0
       valid_lft 82108sec preferred_lft 82108sec
    inet6 fe80::78f9:ecbb:2d48:906a/64 scope link noprefixroute 
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

I do not have to simply set the interface up as:

$ ip link set wlan0 up
Cannot find device "wlan0"

Also, is it dangerous to switch?

Last edited by SealsRock12 (2018-04-14 02:27:24)

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circleface

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Registered: 2012-05-26

Posts: 639

Re: [SOLVED] Switch To wlan0

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ne … evice_name

No, it is not necessarily dangerous to change the name, as long as the names don't clash.  But make sure you read the NOTE at the bottom of that section regarding wlan0 and such.

Last edited by circleface (2018-04-14 00:16:05)

SealsRock12

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Registered: 2018-04-03

Posts: 83

Re: [SOLVED] Switch To wlan0

Thank you, now I found out the name. But I don't want to change it from wlp3s0 because I don't know what files to update.

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