Accidentally deleted my wifi device wlan0

Question

I was trying to fix my wifi on Kali Linux the other day and was following some tutorial. That didn't work, so I read somewhere that if I run this command

iw dev wlan0 del

After that command I can't seem to find my wlan device. When I type iwconfig it shows this:

lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

Anyone know what should I do now?

score 9 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 08 '15 at 17:14

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To undo deletion of wlan0, you can recreate it like so:

iw phy phy0 interface add wlan0 type managed

This is much faster than rebooting and more reliable than restarting network-manager.

answered Dec 08 '15 at 17:14

hackerb9

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score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 22 '15 at 07:58

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Easiest way is to just reboot. The type of configuration change you've made does not persist across reboots.

answered Aug 22 '15 at 07:58

Wouter Verhelst

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do `sudo service network-manager restart`. It will reinitalise all the network interfaces... – Aug 22 '15 at 12:37
that might work, if you have network-manager installed, and if network-manager knows how to recreate the necessary device. That's not a given. – Wouter Verhelst Aug 23 '15 at 21:42

Accidentally deleted my wifi device wlan0

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