[Linux-disciples] Recognizing a new NIC

[Jason A. Smith]

On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 10:40 -0500, Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote:
> Jason A. Smith wrote:
> > I have a machine with a NIC built-in. I think it is crapping out. So, I
> > have installed another NIC. Now, I need my machine to recognize the new
> > NIC on boot. I was pointed to /etc/network/interfaces as the locale for
> > this information... I am unsure how to proceed at this point.
> 
> First step is to see if your network card is recognized.  Run 'dmesg' and see if any 
> network cards show up there.  It should tell you the name of the interface that is 
> created if it sees the card--typically the first card is eth0, and then if there are 
> additional ones they will be eth1, eth2, etc..  Wireless cards often have a different 
> naming convention, for example, my wireless card is ath0; I've also seen wlan0.
> 
It is recognized. I used the GNOME ui to add the other card. It is eth1.



> If your system sees your card and has created an interface for it, then you can set a 
> default configuration for the card in /etc/network/interfaces.  You should have a 
> stanza there for your old card; you just need to substitute in the new interface name 
> if there is one.

So, I would just replace "eth0" with "eth1" - yeah? Oh, I hooked up with
the man pages for interfaces... not very helpful. I am sure that the
information is in there, it is just not accessible prose.


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