25 Dec
2021
25 Dec
'21
10:26 p.m.
On Sat, 25 Dec 2021 11:40:26 -0800
William Morder via tde-users <users(a)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