Slackware 15.0 move hard drive to new hardware network interfaces not working

Hello again...I am running a Slackware 15.0 distro and recently had a catastrophic failure on the desktop pc where it resides. It appeared to me the MB had bit the dust. I ordered a new desktop with no hard drives or OS thinking I could just plug the Slackware hard drive in and it would take off. I was connected to the console and I could see it boot, but no network interfaces came up. On the old machine I had an onboard NIC in the MB which came up as eth0 and a usb to Ethernet adapter which was eth1. On the new hardware When running ifconfig only the 127.0.0.0 interface came up and of course no access to the outside world. After doing much reading it has become apparent that the interface names had changed compared to the MAC addresses for the ethernet interfaces. I was able to boot up to an Lubuntu thumb drive and the eth0 interface came up and was talking. The eth1, the usb to lan adapter, did not however come up. I believe the new hardware does not recognize the Belkin adapter because running lsusb does not list the adapter like on this other Slackware hardware I have.

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root@robrutrm:~# lsusb
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 007: ID 1b1c:0c1a Corsair CORSAIR Lighting Node CORE
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 05e3:0608 Genesys Logic, Inc. Hub
Bus 001 Device 021: ID 0b95:1790 ASIX Electronics Corp. AX88179 Gigabit Ethernet
Bus 001 Device 020: ID 2109:2817 VIA Labs, Inc. USB2.0 Hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 05e3:0608 Genesys Logic, Inc. Hub
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 048d:5702 Integrated Technology Express, Inc. ITE Device
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hubTherefore I am going to leave the eth1 problem alone for now. I would like to get eth0 going initially. As further info when I look at /etc/udev/rules.d when running Lubuntu from the thumb drive. I only see these files:

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robby@rob-ep45ud3p:/etc/udev/rules.d$ ls -l
total 68
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 63312 Jun 9 2022 70-snap.snapd.rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 989 Jun 9 2022 70-snap.vlc.rulesTherefore I am assuming that Ubuntu does not use the persistent files and configures the network interfaces "on the fly" at bootup. Please correct me if I'm wrong.



When I ran ifconfig -a on the problem box I got this output.

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root@robrutrm:/etc/rc.d# ifconfig -a
eth2: flags=4098<BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
ether 98:90:96:c5:3b:5e txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
device interrupt 20 memory 0xf7c00000-f7c20000

lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING> mtu 65536
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 scopeid 0x10<host>
loop txqueuelen 1000 (Local Loopback)
RX packets 13101 bytes 1605430 (1.5 MiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 13101 bytes 1605430 (1.5 MiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0I see from these commands that the on board ethernet NIC is recognized on bootup...

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root@robrutrm:/etc/rc.d# dmesg | grep -i ETH
[ 8.554172] wmi_bus wmi_bus-PNP0C14:01: WQBC data block query control method not found
[ 10.146139] e1000e 0000:00:19.0 eth0: (PCI Express:2.5GT/s:Width x1) 98:90:96:c5:3b:5e
[ 10.146226] e1000e 0000:00:19.0 eth0: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection
[ 10.146319] e1000e 0000:00:19.0 eth0: MAC: 11, PHY: 12, PBA No: FFFFFF-0FF
[ 12.062182] e1000e 0000:00:19.0 eth126: renamed from eth0
[ 12.074925] e1000e 0000:00:19.0 eth2: renamed from eth126
[44280.755415] usbcore: registered new interface driver cdc_ether
[44280.945069] cdc_ncm 2-1.5.3:2.0 eth0: register 'cdc_ncm' at usb-0000:00:1d.0-1.5.3, CDC NCM (NO ZLP), f8:e4:3b:5a:b0:a1
[44280.980639] cdc_ncm 2-1.5.3:2.0 eth125: renamed from eth0
[44280.995507] cdc_ncm 2-1.5.3:2.0 rename_eth125: renamed from eth125
[44370.454387] cdc_ncm 2-1.5.3:2.0 rename_eth125: unregister 'cdc_ncm' usb-0000:00:1d.0-1.5.3, CDC NCM (NO ZLP)
[44370.478473] udevd[7699]: Error changing net interface name rename_eth125 to eth2: No such device
root@robrutrm:/etc/rc.d# dmesg | grep -i network
[ 10.009981] e1000e: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver
[ 10.146226] e1000e 0000:00:19.0 eth0: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network ConnectionFrom the ifconfig -a output above I see a MAC address of 98:90:96:c5:3b:5e for eth2 and from the parsed dmesg output I see an ethernet NIC is recognized with the same MAC address. When I look at /etc/udev/rules.d I see these files...

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root@robrutrm:/etc/udev/rules.d# ls -l
total 8
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2630 Mar 1 2022 70-persistent-cd.rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 370 Mar 3 2022 70-persistent-net.rulesHere is what my 70-persistent-net.rules file has in it.

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# PCI device 0x1969:/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.1/0000:01:00.0 (atl1c)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="f4:6d:04:1a:64:0d", ATTR{dev_id}=="0x0", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="eth0"

# USB device 0x0b95:0x7720 (usb)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="00:50:b6:0a:e7:a7", ATTR{dev_id}=="0x0", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="eth1"

# USB device 0x0b95:0x1790 (usb)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="f8:e4:3b:5a:b0:a1", ATTR{dev_id}=="0x0", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="eth2"Evidently what is in the 70-persistent-net.rules files MAC address for eth0 does not match what is the new hardware MAC address for the ethernet NIC. Also what I have been able to decipher from different posts is to "edit" the 70-persistent-net.rules file and then reload the rules. By edit does it mean to just change the MAC address in the 70-persistent file and then how do I go about reloading the rules? ...or is there a better way to make these changes so they are more dynamic? Thanks in advance.