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Gentoo: Disable Predictable/Consistent Network Adapter Naming

Bailey Kasin Gentoo, GRUB, Kernel, Linux, VMware December 8, 2018

You have probably noticed that network adapters in Linux now follow a naming convention of “enpXsY” or “wlpXsY” instead of “ethX” and “wlanX”. This is generally fine and doesn’t cause much issue. The one downside to the change is that Gentoo and Linux From Scratch VMs running on VMware will have ridiculous names like “eno16777728”.
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Gentoo: How to Install open-vm-tools

Bailey Kasin Gentoo, Kernel, Linux, Virtualization, VMware October 4, 2018

Installing open-vm-tools in Gentoo can lead to errors if the kernel is misconfigured. Here is how to fix that.

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