Re: 2nd network card

[Shaun Jackman <sjackman@telus.net>]

If you're comfortable with editing config files by hand, you 
need to modify two files:
	/etc/network/interfaces
	/etc/modprobe.conf
modprobe.conf is for the linux kernel 2.6. If you're running 
linux kernel 2.4 (likely) then create a new file (any name) 
in /etc/modutils/ and run update-modules afterwards.

[/etc/network/interfaces]
auto lo eth0 eth1
iface lo inet loopback
iface eth0 inet dhcp
iface eth1 inet dhcp

[/etc/modprobe.conf]
alias eth0 3c59x
alias eth1 forcedeth

... where 3c59x and forcedeth are the driver names for your two 
cards. If both cards use the same driver, I'm afraid I don't 
know how to specify which is which.

Hope that helps! Cheers,
Shaun


On Thu June 17, 2004 19h09, Tom Brown wrote:
> How do I setup a second network card and have it activated
> upon boot? And how do I change which card is at eth0 and
> which card is at eth1?
>
> Thanks,
> Tom