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On 16/09/2023 23:31, Kenny McCormack wrote:
> In article
6@dont-email.me>,
> The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> ...
>> Well I explicitly selected to disable it in the config tool and now it
>> seems to work
>
> That`s good. I was going to comment to that effect (that the network names
> thing was your issue, but others beat me to it.
>
>> Where (what file) is that config option stored?
On a full RPi 3B added ` net.ifnames=0 biosdevname=0 ` to end of command
line in /boot/cmdline.txt to get "old" interface names
This may not help of course. I don`t know about Pi0.
>
> The standard advice given at this point is to look at the code in
> /usr/bin/raspi-config. It is a shell script, and reasonably readable.
>
> Searching around a bit, I found this function:
>
> get_net_names() {
> if grep -q "net.ifnames=0" $CMDLINE || [ "$(readlink -f
/etc/systemd/network/99-def
> ault.link)" = "/dev/null" ] ; then
> echo 1
> else
> echo 0
> fi
> }
>
> I think that should give you the general idea.
> there is also a set_net_names() function in there too.
>
> Two other comments:
>
> 1) This Orwellian termed "predictable names" thing is a real PIA. To be
> fair, it is probably the sort of thing that is a good thing if you
> a) really need it and b) can deal with the fallout. But for most
> people, it is just a PIA. It was added to RaspiOS a few releases
> back, but then when people complained about it, they made it
> off-by-default. So, you must be running one of the versions where
> it is on-by-default.
>
> 2) You might want to join the Raspberry Pi help forum and ask your
> questions there. I say this entirely in peaces and love - this is
> not a "You`re off topic in my newsgroup!" flame. It is a good
> forum and they are very attentive to people`s questions such as
> yours. forums.raspberrypi.com should get you there.
>
> I`m not trying to discourage you from posting RPi questions to
> Usenet, but I think you`ll do better there.
>
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