Re: Question: eth0 vs enp1s0 (second try)
On 2016-01-07 18:47:48 +0000, Brian wrote:
> Many WiFi devices require firmware. Some of those devices will not have
> an interface registered (they are not initialised) if the firmware is
> not present to be loaded into the device. Other devices get an interface
> whether the firmware is present or not.
According to lshw, the firmware is 16.242414.0, which is provided
by /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-3160-16.ucode from the firmware-iwlwifi
package.
> If there is no interface there is nothing for the Jessie udev to put
> in 70-persistent-net.rules.
According to the dpkg logs, udev was upgraded to 220-7 before I
installed firmware-iwlwifi. But according to the udev changelog,
the switch to net.ifnames is just for new installations and for
new hardware. Here the hardware was already there; there was just
no firmware.
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