I long struggled getting a wireness connection to Internet and now
seem to have resolved the problem. I could get eth0 running, but not
wireless. I'm runing devuan ASCII on a desktop with a ThinkPenguin USB
dongle.
The problem was that
/etc/udev/rules/0-persistent-net.rulesā70-persistent-net.rules files
was not being generated with reboots. I gather this is a not an
unusual problem.
The standard answer is to remove the 70-persistent-net.rules file,
reboot, and then run:
# /sbin/udevadm trigger --type=devices --action=add
This had no effect. There's debate over the proper synax for the
command, but I tried several versions without luck. A file was
produced that had a stanza for eth0, but not my wireless interface.
So I wrote the stanza manually:
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*",
ATTR{address}=="<my dongle's MAC address>",
ATTR{dev_id}=="0x0", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="wlan*", NAME="wlan0"
I put this interface stanza in /etc/network/interfaces:
auto wlx2824ff1a1794
iface wlx2824ff1a1794 inet dhcp
wpa-ssid ATT680
wpa-psk <my password>
wlx2824ff1a1794 is the Dongle's MAC address. I then did
# ifup wlx2824ff1a1794
and I'm connected wirelessly.
Haines Brown
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