[Linux-disciples] Recognizing a new NIC

[Jason A. Smith]

On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 10:59 -0500, Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote:
> J
> >> 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
> 
> Indeed, just changing eth0 to eth1 should do it. Or you could duplicate the eth0 
> stanza and change it to eth1 in the duplicate--this would give you access to both 
> cards, but if the first one is broken you might as well just change it.
> 
> I'm sure there is some way to do this through a control panel as well, but it is 
> probably easier to just change the file.
> 

Alright, so i finally got a chance to do this and all worked
wonderfully. Thanks for the tips. Query: before I made the change I
copied my old "interfaces" file to "interfaces.old" just in case I
screwed up. Is there an particular advantage/disadvantage to leaving old
files like this lying around?


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