On 2026-02-16, [email protected] wrote: > Hi there. So, I have been using 6.1.141 kernel from gentoo sources and that > was working and then I updated to 6.6.119 and my ethernet device names have > changed. Under 6.1.x and many kernels before that, the names were things > like eno1, etc. but after the upgrade without any config changes my ethernet > devices changed to eth0 and eth1 which of course broke everything. So, what > have I broke here?
Names like "eno1" (or possibly longer variants which will change if you move NICs between slots on some systems) are not from Linux (kernel), but from udev. ethX names are from the kernel itself. -- Nuno Silva
