Questions tagged [device-name]

Questions about changing the name by which the system refers to a device

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How to know the model of the computer from Ubuntu?

I am unable to find my computer model name. I have Ubuntu 12.04. I tried HardInfo and System Monitor, but could not find it. I know this is a noob question, but any help is appreciated.
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Pre-define device number (/dev/video)

having some capture device, it listed with lsusb Bus 002 Device 002: ID 32ed:3200 ezcap ezcap CAM LINK 4K but its device value changes from time to time, so I need to change cap (j) /dev/video pretty ...
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How to change my user or computer name which appeares before each command in the terminal window? [duplicate]

Is there any way to change the name which appears before every command line in the terminal window? If so, then how? As shown below, my current one is way too long and takes up a lot of space in each ...
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Force USB wlan ifname keep starting from 0

Description: I have a NUC running on 20.04 with an internal WiFi chip. Since I need to connect to external antenna so I have added a USB WiFi adaptor. What problem I am having: The USB WiFi interface ...
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What is dev-fuse.device and why does it extend boot time?

Trying to see if I could speed up my system boot I ran systemd-analyze plot > bootplot.svg . Everything seems normal except for dev-fuse.device that starts at 7.7 sec and then shows as activating ...
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Why is my SDCard reader associated with /dev/sda instead of /dev/mmcblk0 and my main SSD with /dev/sdb?

After installing Ubuntu 20.04 LTS on my Asus EP1501P, I found out my SDCard reader was associated with /dev/sda instead of /dev/mmcblk0 and my main SSD with /dev/sdb : $ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sd[ab] ...
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Destroying a drive that appears as both `/dev/sdb` and `/dev/sdb1`

My intention is to destroy a Flash drive attached via USB using the command... dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sdX bs=64K In the command sdX would be substituted. Following execution of this command I ...
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How to find a device based on its device ID

Recently I had a problem that one of the USB ports was stopping Ubuntu 20.04 from suspending. It was suspending, but in a split of the second started again. I found in several posts (1, 2, 3) that it ...
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Is there a way to permanently rename a FTDI TTL to USB Serial Converter

I have a FTDI Chip TTL-232RG I would like to rename to something else, so when I plug it in to any computer, regardless of the distro, it would show up under /dev/tty as the new name. Is this possible?...
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Change the "device name" in the details window of System settings

I would like to change my "Device name" as shown in the settings panel. How do I do this?
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How to reliably get the name of a connected USB drive?

I'd like to get (eventually in a systemd script) the device name of a USB drive that is connected (USB stick or an SSD drive). How can I do that reliably ? We can assume that there will be only one ...
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Terminal Username [duplicate]

So I am new to Linux and whenever I open up my terminal, my username is gansaikhan@gansaikhan: ; So my question is how can I change this terminal username to something like maybe gansaikhan@ubuntu: ......
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Will there be problems if I change the computer name sometimes?

Will I mess up the system if I sometimes change the computer name of my laptop under Ubuntu? Will there be a problem if I name it under some brand name? I imagine that if I access my laptop from ...
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How do I set mount point and label for a LUKS encrypted ext. HDD?

Is there an "easy" way of changing the label/name/mount of a LUKS encrypted HDD, and at the same time have it mount at a Label name in /media/user/ ? Atm I have my disk listed twice in Dolhpin: 3,6 ...
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How to change hard drive name [duplicate]

my hard drive is located in /media/ronin_cunningham/408242E58242DED2 and I want to change the name 408242E58242DED2 to StorageDevice. How would I do this from the terminal? Thanks.
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It is so imprecise to create a technical term **tty name** in **w** command

Abstract from man w. The following entries are displayed for each user: login name, the tty name, the remote host, login time, idle time, JCPU, PCPU, and the command line of their current process....
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How can I change the wireless name of my computer?

How can I change the name of my PC that the router sees when I'm connected (in attached devices)? (Without changing username) Edit (clarification): Currently, when I connect my laptop wirelessly to ...
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Why does an external USB hub show up under different USB bus/port numbers than other devices plugged into the same port?

I'm working on setting up a system where I want to have certain devices always named the same way when they are plugged into certain ports. I originally set up a udev rules file with the devices ...
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New NIC device naming in 12.10?

I've just discovered after installing Ubuntu 12.10 that there seems to be new device names for eth0...ethX. However, I haven't managed to find any documentation that explains the new naming ...
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How to find the device name of an HDD that won't mount?

I have a failing HDD that I want to recover data from, using ddrescue. However, I don't know how to find the device name. When I booted Ubuntu with the disk plugged in, Ubuntu seemed to get stuck ...
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Persistent device naming for Windows 7-partition in Ubuntu

I'd like to give the Windows partition of my Ubuntu installation a persistent device name, so different applications (like the local folder-account of my email software, or my local dropbox client) ...
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Unable to login following permission changes in device manager (11.10 + Gnome)

(Running Gnome 3 on Ubuntu 11.10) Everything working well (at least a couple of months), until recently when I changed the permissions through the device manager on the sda1 /2/ 3 drives, thinking it ...
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Change name of mobile android device

I have 2x HTC EVO Android devices. Both devices show up as Pictures-PC36100. I have to open the folder and then open a picture inside to figure out which phone the folder belongs to. Is there ...