[mythtv-users] kernel upgrade broke networking

[John Drescher]

On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 11:12 AM, John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com> wrote:
>> When I set up the computer, I had moved eth0 out of /etc/network/interfaces
>> and had set it up via the Settings -> Network Connections tool so I could
>> set it up with DHCP.  But after the update, the Network Connections tool
>> wasn’t working – it wouldn’t show me eth0 at all.  I put eth0 back into the
>> /etc/network/interfaces file and rebooted and confirmed that the network
>> jack was working fine (albeit now with DHCP instead of the IP I had set in
>> Network Connections).  I booted up and switched the kernel on boot to the
>> version prior to the update today and it booted fine and the network worked
>> fine.
>
> Possibly new kernel naming rules. I mean for me on gentoo (for the
> last ~2 years) I can use the old eth0 naming with a kernel parameter
> or just use the new enpXXX naming of network devices.
>

www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PredictableNetworkInterfaceNames/

John