[Linux-disciples] Recognizing a new NIC

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 09:52:34AM -0500, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> 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.

Oh, also: removing 'auto' will only prevent eth0 from
causing problems on your next bootup. To shut eth0 off now,
do

sudo ifdown eth0

from the command line. To bring eth1 up, do

sudo ifup eth1

If eth1 is already up, you'll get a message back that eth1
is 'already configured'.

Incidentally, Linuxy folks: why are ethN not in /dev? I'm
still learning the boundaries and contours of the /dev
filesystem, and I've not yet figured out why certain things
are or are not in there.

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