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<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Last night I renamed my
ethernet adapter </font><span style="font-family:monospace"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span
style="color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;">enx7cc2c6305483
(only one I have) to eth0.</span></font> I found the
instructions online. I went into /etc/netplan. First I renamed
01-network-manager-all.yaml to </span><span
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style="font-family:monospace">o1-network-manager-all.yaml.bak
Then I created a new </span></span><span
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style="font-family:monospace">01-network-manager-all.yaml
and made the changes I wanted. I did this because I
sometimes use netwatch, but it expects eth0 to be there. I
got tired of having to specify the ethernet interface
(netwatch -e </span></span></span><span
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style="color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;">enx7cc2c6305483</span>).
After I made the change and rebooted, ifconfig showed eth0
and netwatch worked without me having to use -e </span></span></span></span><span
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style="color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;">enx7cc2c6305483</span>.
Today I found that Discovery gave me an error saying it
was offline, even thought it told me there are new
updates available. Also my vpn client stopped working.
This was the only changed I made since yesterday, so I
undid the changes I made in /etc/netplan and rebooted.
Discover and the VPN client worked like they're supposed
to. How can I rename the interface to eth0 and fix it
so nothing complains that the interface it's looking for
isn't there? Thanks. Below are the two versions of </span></span></span></span></span><span
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style="font-family:monospace">01-network-manager-all.yaml</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:monospace"><span
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style="font-family:monospace">Original, what I went
back to today</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:monospace"><span
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style="font-family:monospace"># Let NetworkManager
manage all devices on this system<br>
network:<br>
version: 2<br>
renderer: NetworkManager<br>
</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:monospace"><span
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# Let NetworkManager manage all devices on this
system<br>
network:<br>
version: 2<br>
ethernets:<br>
eth0:<br>
dhcp4: true<br>
match:<br>
macaddress: 7c:c2:c6:30:54:83<br>
set-name: eth0<br>
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