06-05-2018, 01:10 PM
There's much I don't like about Linux, I was an active OpenBSD user for 15 years or so. In the BSDs a device driver is given a name like rtl for realktek or ath for Atheros. The devices are named for the drivers, hence the manufacturer. An Atheros card might be /dev/ath0. Each driver has a man page so you can learn its particulars. Patches are done the old fashioned way, by patching source and recompiling, so you could locate ath.c because you've got the source around.
But you can ratchet the stupidity down a notch by falling back to the previous scheme:
https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Softwar...faceNames/
By creating /etc/systemd/network/99-default.link that's a symlink to /dev/null it turns it off.
I'll find out after I reboot into no-network-land. At least the name will make more sense even if it still doesn't work. Really, has anybody thought about the security implications of mistyping one of those gadawful names?
But you can ratchet the stupidity down a notch by falling back to the previous scheme:
https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Softwar...faceNames/
By creating /etc/systemd/network/99-default.link that's a symlink to /dev/null it turns it off.
I'll find out after I reboot into no-network-land. At least the name will make more sense even if it still doesn't work. Really, has anybody thought about the security implications of mistyping one of those gadawful names?