There is no more network device after upgrading from RH6 to RH7
Issue
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After the upgrade to RHEL7 from RHEL6, the network device is not available anymore and the module can't be loaded:
lspci | grep -i eth 0b:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: VMware VMXNET3 Ethernet Controller [15ad:07b0] (rev 01) Subsystem: VMware VMXNET3 Ethernet Controller [15ad:07b0]
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If we try to load the module used by this kind of device:
FATAL: Module vmxnet3 not found.
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And we can notice that
modules.dep
file is empty:ls -al lib/modules/3.10.0-1127.19.1.el7.x86_64/modules.dep -rwxrwx---+ 1 yank yank 0 Sep 15 20:59 lib/modules/3.10.0-1127.19.1.el7.x86_64/modules.dep
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 7
- upgrade
- kernel
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