Adding a NIC

Aaron Konstam akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Tue Apr 13 13:05:50 UTC 2010


On Mon, 2010-04-12 at 08:32 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: 
> On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 14:34:38 +0300 (EEST)
> Gabriel VLASIU wrote:
> 
> > /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules
> > 
> > Look for NAME="eth0", NAME="eth1".
> 
> Ah, but this all gets very Alice In Wonderland. The
> names in the udev rules are the names of the "device",
> the names of the "interface" can be different.
> 
> If you are using the traditional "network" interface
> then you may also need to fiddle the
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth* scripts
> to have the right names and point to the right
> hardware address.
> 
> If you are using NetworkManager, God knows how to
> name the interfaces...

God may or maynot know but normally the wireless interfacew is eth1.
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