Problem with wifi after clonned from/to Debian 10 / LXDE

[Anderson Fernandes de Alencar]

Hi everyone! Happy holidays!

First of all: thanks for the wonderful job you've been doing on clonezilla! It already helped us a lot here on Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco on Brazil.

I have searched on the forum but didn't find exactly the solution for my problem, so i put it here:

As source, I'm using a "HP Classmate Notebook PC" similar, installed with Debian 10 (32bits), window manager LXDE and network manager wicd. As destination, i am using a computer with the same hardware specification. The iwconfig shows this:

enps1s0 no wireless extensions.
lo no wireless extensions.
wlx4061864469f8 IEEE 802.11 ESSID: off/any Mode: Managed

and other information.

The problem occurs when i cloned it using default settings. The new installed PC (or clonezilla?) changes this number wlx4061864469f8 to a different one, so the wirelless network are not found anymore. Using iwconfig again, i can copy the new number and change it on wicd, making it work again.

Anyone got a solution? Would it be connected to persistent wifi?

Thanks in advance!

Anderson Alencar

[Steven Shiau]

If you want fixed name for the network interface, you can try to add net.ifnames=0 in your boot parameters. Maybe this helps.
Ref: https://wiki.debian.org/NetworkInterfaceNames

Steven

[Anderson Fernandes de Alencar]

Just finished and it worked!!! Thank you!!!

I used exactly this part from the tutorial:

"The simple way of disabling the whole current interface naming scheme (which you might want to try for one-off testing) is just to boot with the kernel parameter net.ifnames=0, which can be set in an interactive grub session at boot or made persistent by editing /etc/default/grub and running update-grub."

Anderson Alencar

[Steven Shiau]

Cool! Thanks for your feedback.

Steven