[nylug-talk] configure new NIC on the command line

[Sunny Dubey]

On Wednesday 30 April 2003 03:45 pm, Yang Xiao wrote:
> Hi nyluggers,
> I just added a 3com 3c905 NIC to redhat 8.0 box, it did not recognize it,
> how do I configure it from the command line? I know the
> redhat-config-network GUI tool, but just curious.
>

first you must load the module that is needed by your networking card.  You 
should be able to do this in /etc/modules.conf as ...

alias eth1 3c5x9

(NOTE:  replace eth1 with whatever the network card is to be, and replace 
3c9x5 with whatever your module is.)

RPM based distros tend to have network interface configurations in files like:
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1
(NOTE:  replace eth1 with whatever the network card is to be.)

An example configuration file would be ...

# Begin file
DEVICE=eth1
IPADDR=192.168.67.1
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
NETWORK=192.168.67.0
BROADCAST=192.168.67.255
ONBOOT=yes
# End of file

One you have edited the correct file .. just do:
/etc/init.d/network restart
and you should be good to go.

Sunny Dubey

PS:  If you want your new network card to be the card that connects to the 
rest of the network and internet, look for the file: /etc/sysconfig/network
and in it make sure it has something like GATEWAYDEV=eth1

hope that helps