[CentOS] wifi on servers and fedora [was Re: 7.2 kernel panic on boot]

[John R Pierce]

On 12/10/2015 1:56 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> As a lesser example, I just*adore*  the new ethernet names - NOT. Breaks
> scripts, makes it all more difficult, not to mention*so*  much easier to
> guess, when you've debugging a box and your organization has hardware from
> many OEMs. What was wrong with eth0, or even em1?

when you have multiple adapters, perhaps different types (maybe 2 10gigE 
and 2 1gigE?) which one is eth0 supposed to be?   BSD has always used 
driver type in the network device names, and having dealt with device 
confusions before, I understand why.



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john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz