Upgrade to kernel-3.10.0-693.2.2 lost Ethernet

[glennzo]

Hello all.

As above, I upgraded one of my desktops to kernel-3.10.0-693.2.2.el7.x86_64 and Ethernet is not working. If I boot back to the previous kernel Ethernet works perfectly, as it always has.

ip addr only shows lo, no enp0s7 (the name of the card in previous kernels)

lspci shows 00:07.0 Bridge: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 Ethernet (rev a2)

I'll provide full getinfo output if required.

I think that this has to be NVIDIA related because there is another CentOS 7 desktop that was also upgraded. It has an Intel Ethernet adapter and it works well.

Any thoughts?

[TrevorH]

CentOS 7 doesn't support the nvidia ethernet controller. You will either have built that from source (in which case that explains why it stopped working and needs to be rebuilt against the new kernel) or you've installed kmod-forcedeth from the ELRepo repo and need to update it to one that works with the 7.4 kernel series.

[glennzo]

Thank you for your reply Trevor.

I had previously installed kmod-forcedeth from ELRepo.

Is there one that works with the 7.4 kernel series?

[jlehtone]

kmod-forcedeth-0.64-3.el7.elrepo.x86_64.rpm has date 09-Aug-2017, which is after release of RHEL-7.4.

[glennzo]

Apparently ELRepo was removed by me at some point after installing kmod-forcedeth. I've reinstalled ELRepo and am upgrading to kmod-forcedeth-0.64-3.el7.elrepo.x86_64. I'm sure that once I reboot the machine the NVIDIA adapter will light up once again.

(A few minutes later)
And it did. Ethernet once again works.
Thank you both for your help.