On Sat, 25 Dec 2021 11:40:26 -0800 William Morder via tde-users users@trinitydesktop.org wrote:
I've already gone through the usual troubleshooting tricks, iwconfig, ifconfig, etc. When I try to enable wireless, why do I get an error message that txpower is "wrong syntax"? Also, I expected that the name of the wireless connection would follow Beowulf/Buster with wlx-something. I hear that Chimaera/Bullseye is supposed to wlps20, but after installing TDE, I find that it has somehow reverted to Jessie-style names, wlan0 ... which doesn't seem right. I don't have anything but Devuan Chimaera installed.
wlan0 (and eth0) are the default names branded into the kernel. Unless a specific kernel command-line option is passed, udev or equivalent overules the default during the boot process. So there's nothing intrinsically wrong with those names— Devuan probably just sets "net.ifnames=0".
Now, what do you know about the wireless hardware itself? Do you know what driver it uses? The chipset (I think you may have said previously, but I don't remember)? Is it one of the rfkill-encumbered chipsets? Is wpa_supplicant installed, or are you genuinely trying to configure everything via wireless_tools (iw*)?
E. Liddell