There is no more network device after upgrading from RH6 to RH7

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Issue

  • 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]
    
  • If we try to load the module used by this kind of device:

    FATAL: Module vmxnet3 not found.
    
  • 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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