Wireless interface name problem

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2016-02-11
orkinos

Wireless interface name problem

Hello,

I've just deploy rasp pi image on SD card and run it on rasp zero (I also ran it on raspberry pi 1 B). Everything seems to be working fine except the wlan interface name.

I would expect to see wlan0 but instead the following

Code:

root@kali:~# ifconfig lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING> mtu 65536 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 scopeid 0x10<host> loop txqueuelen 0 (Local Loopback) RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B) RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 TX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B) TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 wlx00c0ca634617: flags=4099<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 ether 00:c0:ca:63:46:17 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet) RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B) RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 TX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B) TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0

As you see, instead of wlan0 I have wlx[My MAC address]

I tried few different wireless network adapter but the problem was consistent
2016-02-13
Reconor894

Same issue

I have the same issue your having. Just here to follow along and see what's wrong.
2016-02-14
orkinos

So far I found that neither /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules nor /lib/udev/rules.d/75-persistent-net-generator.rules exists in the image.

Also I would expect to see rule_generator.functions and write_net_rules on the /lib/udev/ but they are missing too
2016-02-14
orkinos

ok, I solved it.

1- I upload the following missing files from my PC (Linux Mint 17.3) to Raspbbery pi.
/lib/udev/write_net_rules
/lib/udev/rule_generator.functions
/lib/udev/rules.d/75-persistent-net-generator.rules

2- Restart the Pi.
3- Unplug and then plug the wireless adapter. Then check the result via ifconfig

please let me know if it also works for you.
2016-02-17
raspthomas

Hey,

I have the same issue and tried to add the files manually. It didn't work but it might very well be because I downloaded the files from the internet. Here is where I got them from:

write_net_rules

rule_generator.functions

For the 70-persistent-net.rules I followed this tutorial.

It also seems to be somewhat driver related. Here is (the interesting) part of what happens when I plug in my TL-WN722N (version 1.10):

Code:

usb 1-1.3: ath9k_htc: firmware htc_9271.fw requested usbcore: registered new interface driver ath9k_htc usb 1-1.3: ath9k_htc: Transferred FW: htc_9271.fw, size: 51272 ath9k_htc 1-1.3:1.0: ath9k_htc: HTC initialized with 33 credits ath9k_htc 1-1.3:1.0: FW Version: 1.3 ieee80211 phy0: Atheros AR9271 Rev: 1 cfg80211: Calling CRDA for country: CN ath9k_htc 1-1.3:1.0 wlx60e3271d0046: renamed from wlan0

Are there somewhere older versions of the RasPi 2 image available?
2016-02-18
pilotguy0916

hey hows it going? how would i go about getting the files i am using windows and mac and Kali on rpi
2016-03-08
hightech316

Also experiencing the same issue.

Mind posting files for us to give it a go?
2016-03-09
abe675

exactly same problem
But I couldn't understand what to do.
All I did was directly plug the wn722
I don't know what setup was needed
2016-12-21
HackR10t

Anybody still having problems with funny/weird interface names? (e.g wlx(MACADDRESS), wlp(SOME OTHER S#iT)...etc)
Run:
ln -s /dev/null /etc/udev/rules.d/80-net-setup-link.rules
(if you get a file exist error, delete the file and try again)
then reboot
interface names will be back to normal persistently. (e.g eth0, wlan0, wlan1...etc)
hope this helps. If so, mark as SOLVED please.
Thank You
2017-01-17
CrackOnDemand

Quote:

Originally Posted by HackR10t

Anybody still having problems with funny/weird interface names? (e.g wlx(MACADDRESS), wlp(SOME OTHER S#iT)...etc)
Run:
ln -s /dev/null /etc/udev/rules.d/80-net-setup-link.rules
(if you get a file exist error, delete the file and try again)
then reboot
interface names will be back to normal persistently. (e.g eth0, wlan0, wlan1...etc)
hope this helps. If so, mark as SOLVED please.
Thank You

it works on ubuntu 16.04.1, Thanks