On Monday 01 April 2019 16:09:11 E. Liddell wrote:
> On Sun, 31 Mar 2019 10:32:58 -0700
>
> William Morder <doctor_contendo@...> wrote:
> > My other issue is with wireless networking, which is unavailable to me in
> > ascii/stretch, due to some renaming of the wifi interface (or a deeper
> > issue, perhaps) from wlan0 (in jessie) to wlx00027288d1fd (in
> > stretch/ascii). This is probably an issue unrelated to Kmail, but maybe
> > not? Also, I cannot tell if it is a problem only with TDE, or is more an
> > issue with Devuan, or the Ascii release.
>
> It's probably udev's fault, or at least this sounds an awful lot like the
> "predictable" network interface names issue that landed years ago in
> most other distros.
>
> https://askubuntu.com/questions/689070/network-interface-name-changes-after
>-update-to-15-10-udev-changes seems to cover most of the mitigation advice
> I've read.
>
> E. Liddell
>

Thanks so much for this link. I haven't had a moment to check it yet (as email 
still "works" in Devuan Jessie), but I need to sort it out, and maybe this 
will lead me to a resolution of this issue. I would really like to upgrade at 
least to Ascii/Stretch, and join the hep crowd. 

Bill