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

 
On 10/04/2020 00:38, Grant Phillips-Sewell wrote:
On Fri, 10 Apr 2020, 00:05 Julian Hall, <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote: 

    wlxa85e45f3ca6b: renamed from wlan0 <-- I thought the new concept
    was to
    name network connections something /meaningful/?


wl = WiFi
x = MAC address coming up next
a8 5e 45 f3 ca 6b = the devices MAC address
Seems to fit the bill of being a consistent network device naming scheme. You can always change this behaviour if you need or want. 

Thanks, beat me to it :]
In IT there's (nearly) always a reason for the weirdest looking stuff - someone had to sit and manually code it after all. 'Meaningful' is highly contextual - to an end user the new names might look like unfriendly gibberish but to a sysadmin they look entirely sensible - much better than an entire LAN of eth0s and wlan0s.
The same reasoning informs stuff like the various "weird" naming conventions for disks you'll find lurking in /dev/disk/by-* that seem pretty wilfully obscure compared to good old /dev/sda and sdb. Things like that are always there for a reason though and it's often only visible at the sort of scale end users don't see: sysadmins use those WWNs and bus addresses to find individual disks in racks full of hundreds of them. Fibre zoning as well come to think of it for VSANs. 

Anyway, there are always reasons for stuff like this in computing.


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