On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Digimer <lists at alteeve.ca> wrote: > This is something of a loaded question and also quite dependent on what > you are doing. If the server is very critical, I would probably wait > until 7.1 or 7.2. If the server is not very critical, then sure, use EL7 > and start learning it (and report bugs! :) ). > > It's not critical, just a development server I'll like to configure in order to start learn a bit CentOS 7 (I'm not a System Administrator expert but a developer) > If 'ifconfig -a' doesn't see it, the kernel probably doesn't, either. Do > you see it in lspci or dmidecode? If not, I would look at the hypervisor > for a problem. > As I said above I'm not a expert but I did "man dmidecode" since lspci isn't available and I can't find a TYPE for see network interfaces also I do not know if the output is related to motherboard (the one I have) or is related to emulated board (if this has sense), so what command should I run to give you proper info? > > Yes you can do it without rebooting, but it still requires taking the > network down. > > I wrote this a while ago: > > https://alteeve.ca/w/Changing_Ethernet_Device_Names_in_EL7_and_Fedora_15%2B > > It probably needs to be updated/cleaned up, but it should be good enough > to help you. I'll take a look in a few minutes after system updates complete