Gigabit ethernet as second network interface troubles

["Tom Deconinck" <t.deconinck@gmail.com>]

Hi,

I'm trying to add a second gigabit ethernet nic to my system.
It's an Intel PRO/1OOOGT. (82541PI chip)

It shows up when i do lspci
So I load the e1000 kernel module... but nothing happens, lsmod shows
it is loaded but that is it.

I guess i need some way to link the newly added card to eth1?
I added eth1 to /etc/network/interfaces but when if ifup eth1 it dies
saying no invalid device eth1.

The system is a Intel P4 single board with chipset 845 and a pci
backplane.

Any suggestion would be greatly appreciated

Thanks,
Tom