I could, i guess, try to load an old kernel. i tend to clean out /boot, and if the package manager deletes my kernel source all i have is a .config. I would lea

I could, i guess, try to load an old kernel. i tend to clean out /boot, and if the package manager deletes my kernel source all i have is a .config. I would lean toward .config diffs, but it is possible that my distribution kernel maintainers made specific patches that made this networking stuff "optional" - as is spectre and rowhammer and other speculative execution mitigation "optional". I just know my torment with networking started about 5 months ago at the closest. I didn't upgrade kernels between February and May 31st of 2022, so if it happened in there, i wouldn't be able to track that down without some sort of distro-specific archive of kernel releases.