Renaming rausb0 to wlan0

Problem:When a USB wireless device using the rt73 driver is plugged in under Linux, it appears (e.g. in ifconfig) as rausb0 rather than the more familiar device name wlan0.
Solution:Add the following line to your /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules in order to rename the device:
ACTION=="add", KERNEL=="rausb0", NAME="wlan0"

To diagnose this sort of problems, launch udevadm monitor before running modprobe rt73. The correct output of udevadm monitor while the renaming rule is in effect should look as follows:

UEVENT[1232279287.492254] add      
/module/rt73 (module)
UEVENT[1232279287.494837] add      
/bus/usb/drivers/rt73 (drivers)
UEVENT[1232279287.496842] add      
/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0/rausb0 (net)
UEVENT[1232279287.501910] add      
/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb1/1-1/1-1 (firmware)
UDEV  [1232279287.505345] add      
/module/rt73 (module)
UDEV  [1232279287.508952] add      
/bus/usb/drivers/rt73 (drivers)
UDEV  [1232279287.534015] add      
/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0/wlan0 (net)
UEVENT[1232279287.555346] remove   
/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb1/1-1/1-1 (firmware)
UDEV  [1232279287.558466] remove   
/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb1/1-1/1-1 (firmware)
UDEV  [1232279287.561163] add      
/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb1/1-1/1-1 (firmware)

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