[Linux-disciples] Recognizing a new NIC

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 09:48:09AM -0500, Jason A. Smith wrote:
> 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?

No disadvantages at all, nor any advantages.

I've only been skimming the discussion up to now, so I'm not
sure if someone's already said this, but: if the on-board
eth0 is your problem, you should remove the 'auto' bit from
the eth0 stanza. You want eth1 to load on bootup, and eth0
to stay quiet.

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