[RESOLVED] New wifi card and renaming shown network

[Don]

I have a new wifi card, Aorus GC-WBAX210. If seemed to work right out of the box, recognizing all my networks. (On each band, I have a guest and a mac-protected network.) Except it would not connect to the mac-protected networks. So I deleted the old 2.4 mac network and created a new one with the same name. It works, and I can connect to it. The only problem is that it shows up as "New 802-11-wireless connection" rather than under the network name. I have given it a priority higher than my guest network.

nmcli con show:

Wired connection 1 03707ec7-8f36-3491-89e4-1e56612020b1 ethernet eno1
New 802-11-wireless connection e253ed5a-7bb5-41d9-a413-af75aaa96aea wifi wlp5s0
Jim_5G c2f2bdc1-4a93-4ad6-8ea2-552feb006aae wifi --

Jim_5G is my guest network.

My new connection is on the 2.4G band. I probably can use the same procedure to recreate my mac 5G network, but it will have the same name. (I know because I tried it, then deleted it.)

How do I "rename" the new connection to its actual name? When I go into Connections--System Settings, the new network's name appears properly in SSID. It is not a hidden network. But the network listing on the left shows the connection as New 802-11-wireless connection, and that is what I need to change. Right-clicking on it gives only the options of disconnecting or deleting.

Thanks.

[claydoh]

Right above the SSID on the right pane, you will see "Connection name". Edit this to whatever you want.

[Don]

Hi, claydoh. That's the problem. The SSID does show the correct name where you have your home network's name greyed out. It's the left-hand pane that shows "New 802-11-wireless connection."

[Don]

It occurs to me that I may just need to do a factory reset on the router and then recreate my networks. I had hoped to avoid that, but if the router thinks my "correct name" is still a network, that explains why the new connection comes up with a different name no matter what I type in the SSID box.

[Don]

I figured it out, and I win the dumb prize for the day . . . perhaps for the decade. I was looking at the SSID name. The connection name is changeable in the box above the tabs that says (confusing the hell out of me) Connection name:

The problem that never was is now resolved. Apologies to claydoh for wasting his time.

[GreyGeek]

The "Connection Name" shown in NetworkManager for my wifi is "ALLOE89C2_5G".

When I use ifconfig to list the networks it showed up as wlxsomestuff, which was too long and obtuse for my two neurons to remember.
I wanted a simpler name. So, after some ddg'ing I found this.

Here is what I ended up with:
In /etc/default/grub I added
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet net.ifnames=0"
and then ran update-grub2 on the cli.

In /etc/udev/rules.d/10-persistent-network-rules (which was empty) I added
ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="net", ATTR{address}=="b4:4b:d6:2d:72:34", NAME="wlan0"
where the hex code is for my wifi card.

The next time I logged in and did "sudo ifconfig" I got

$ sudo ifconfig
lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING>  mtu 65536
       inet 127.0.0.1  netmask 255.0.0.0
       inet6 ::1  prefixlen 128  scopeid 0x10<host>
       loop  txqueuelen 1000  (Local Loopback)
       RX packets 66  bytes 4698 (4.5 KiB)
       RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
       TX packets 66  bytes 4698 (4.5 KiB)
       TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

wlan0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
       inet 192.168.1.100  netmask 255.255.255.0  broadcast 192.168.1.255
       inet6 fe80::c991:cd32:6665:9c9d  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20<link>
       ether b4:4b:d6:2d:72:34  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
       RX packets 1838  bytes 1005732 (982.1 KiB)
       RX errors 0  dropped 245  overruns 0  frame 0
       TX packets 1487  bytes 245552 (239.7 KiB)
       TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0