On Sun, 2025-11-02 at 22:13 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: > I removed the dongle from the usb port I > had it plugged in to because I found the port was USB2 instead of USB3 > so I plugged it into a USB3 port, restarted NetworkManager and restart > IWD as in Fedora NetworkManager doesn't restart/start/stop the IWD > service (I understand that in Arch Linux NetworkManager does). > > The restarting of the NetworkManager and IWD services caused > NetworkManager to create an new wifi definition rather than use the one > I created, with the auto-created definition using WLAN2.
Your network device name will be something like "/dev/enp0s20f0u4", where the number of the USB port is part of that sequence. If you use a different port, it's seen as a different device. It's not that intuitive. We expect a device name to be associated with the device. Which is doable with some jiggery pokery, but it's far easier to just keep dongles plugged into the same port. To put that into context. We expect our mouse to always been seen as our mouse, no matter which port we plug it into. I came across this when I recently unplugged my phone cable from the computer, and didn't plug it back into the same port. The cable had been in the same port for months, and I hadn't really thought about it. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 4 14:43:51 UTC 2024 x86_64 (yes, this is the output from uname for this PC when I posted) Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
