Hi, I had the same problem:
This is finally driving me nuts: My wireless interface is wlan0_rename/wifi0 (?). How do I change that? More importantly, why does it exist in two states and why the "_rename?"
Thanks, and sorry if the answer is buried in a thread somewhere.
I just commented out line 15 in file /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules
"SUBSYSTEM=="net", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTRS{address}=="MAC Address", NAME="eth3""
The device is not mapped to eth3 anymore. I have now 2 devices wifi0 and wlan0.
Hope it helps,
Achim