[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#842422: Automatic device renaming seems to cause the issue

[Pete Miller]

Hi,

I had similar issues with a RT5572 based USB dongle. I tried renaming
using 70-persistent-net.rules, but, since the mac address kept changing
this did not work.

I finally found this post - https://askubuntu.com/questions/689070/netw
ork-interface-name-changes-after-update-to-15-10-udev-
changes/732638#732638, specifically the part:

Edit your /etc/default/grub. Change the line from

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""

to

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="net.ifnames=0 biosdevname=0"

and, finally run:

# update-grub

as root, and reboot your system.

And that worked.

So, turning off automatic renaming allowed NM (1.4.4-1 daemon and
1.4.2-1 gnome) to connect.

Thanks, Pete Miller