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Re: [LUG] Getting a USB AC68 dongle to work in Mint 19.3

 

On 04/04/2020 12:14, Grant Phillips-Sewell wrote:
On Fri, 3 Apr 2020, 22:42 Julian Hall, <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I tried 'sudo ifconfig enp0s10 down' which correctly knocked the wired
ethernet offline [another bit of Mint weirdness it doesn't use eth0],
however 'sudo ifconfig wlan0 up' gave an error

It took me a bit of getting used to but I now quite like the new network naming scheme.

More details here:
https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PredictableNetworkInterfaceNames/

It should now make sense that "wlan0" is not the device you'd need to ifconfig.

Grant

Thanks Grant, I understand now. It looks as if there /is/ no wireless device at all, so I'm totally stumped.

(base) julian@CERCE:~$ iwconfig
enp0s10   no wireless extensions.

lo        no wireless extensions.

I still don't understand what enp0s10 is supposed to mean though. For my purposes eth0 and wlan0 work perfectly well. Output of ifconfig below with nothing other than the wired connection and loopback listed.

(base) julian@CERCE:~$ ifconfig
enp0s10: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
        inet 192.168.1.2  netmask 255.255.255.0  broadcast 192.168.1.255
        inet6 fe80::1110:fb2e:baa6:2ceb  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20<link>
        ether 00:19:66:f7:4b:1c  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 176809  bytes 142130746 (142.1 MB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 130196  bytes 24159601 (24.1 MB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

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 1000  (Local Loopback)
        RX packets 6160  bytes 558452 (558.4 KB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 6160  bytes 558452 (558.4 KB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

Kind regards,

Julian

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