How to remove a damaged Wired Connection

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sun, 28 Aug 2016 20:52:50 +0200, Chas IRONS wrote:
>> PS: JFTR due to the device names, this seems to be not a default
>> xenial install. By default xinial unlikely uses kernel names.
>>   
>
>It took a long time for the "Automatic" upgrade to 16.04 over the
>internet (5 hours if my notes are correct) but should be a normal /
>default install. 
>I don't know enough to do anything else as you can see from my
>questions :D.
>The history tab in Ubuntu Software Centre does not even show the
>upgrade in August; only updates since then.
>Nevertheless 16.04 is working well for all my personal affairs thanks
>to all your developers and and others.

Perhaps the upgrade kept the kernel names, to stay compatible with
configuration files. A new install doesn't use those names anymore.