On Thu 01 Nov 2018 at 19:21:24 +0100, local10 wrote: > Nov 1, 2018, 1:57 PM by mst...@debian.org: > > > On Thu, Nov 01, 2018 at 05:43:56PM +0100, local10 wrote: > > > > That means it's down. Note that you said enp3so above, that should be > > enp3s0 (zero); which did you put in interfaces? Also, there should be > > either "auto enp3s0" or "allow-hotplug enp3s0". Assuming that's all right, > > try manually running "ifup -v enp3s0". > > > > That was it. I did have "allow-hotplug" but it was still pointing to > enp2s0, not paying attention obviously. After changing "allow-hotplug > enp3s0" the network came back, everything works. > > So my experience indicates that it is quite possible to replace the > motherboard, stick the old hard disk in and the only change that's > required (in my case) was to change "/etc/network/interfaces" to > reflect the new interface name from enp2s0 to enp3s0 . No need to > change NIC MAC address. > > Thanks to everyone who responded.
I've done that myself - changing a parameter on one line but not on another. Well done for listening to and exploring the advice you were given. -- Brian.
