Re: Network hardware disappeared after re-boot

[Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@surfnaked.ca>]

On 2025-08-26 22:46, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

> I have a Lenovo T410 laptop running Bookworm (12.11 according to
> /etc/debian_version).  It's been running perfectly for months without
> a re-boot - but after a re-boot today (more on this later) it can no
> longer find network hardware, either wi-fi or Ethernet.  "ip addr" and
> /etc/network/interfaces only contain entries for the loopback device
> (lo); /etc/network/interfaces.d is empty.  Aside from the loss of
> networking, the machine seems to be running normally (although
> VirtualBox can no longer bring up a Windows XP virtual machine
> which uses the networking hardware).

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Although netiquette discourages CCing the original poster (and for good 
reason), I'm going to ask people to make an exception in this case.  I 
read this list via Usenet, which I run on the machine which has lost 
network access.  Catch-22.

So if anyone has any suggestions, please - this once - CC my e-mail 
address in your replies.  Thanks.

If there's a web-accessible archive of the list which stays up to date, 
that might be an alternative.

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cgibbs@surfnaked.ca (Charlie Gibbs)