ETCH, I disabled on board NIC and Installed NIC Card; How to Get it to work?

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I believe I have a flaky on board NIC so I disbaled it in BIOS and installed a PCI NIC Card. How to I get it recognized? I thought I would do a base-config, but no more. . .Any hint would be appreciated.

Thx in advance

Ron

Running latest ETCH on a 486

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get new pci nic to work

hello,
first identify it logging as su

eniz@debian4:~$ su
Password:
debian4:/home/eniz# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 01:1D:F2:D0:FD:F0
inet addr:192.168.0.4 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::215:f2ff:fed0:fdf2/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1801 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1568 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1871118 (1.7 MiB) TX bytes:202542 (197.7 KiB)
Interrupt:185 Base address:0xb000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:560 (560.0 b) TX bytes:560 (560.0 b)

eth0 or eth1, its MAC no is 01:1d:f2:d0:fd:f0
then

1/ Create a new file in /etc/udev/rules.d/010_netinterfaces.rules

In it specify the new cards names for each interface on its own line

KERNEL="oldname", SYSFS{address}=="MACaddress", NAME="newname"

KERNEL="eth", SYSFS{address}==" 01:1d:f2:d0:fd:f0", NAME="eth0"

the MAC address, the hexadecimal digits should be in lowercase

3/ update the interfaces file
debian4:/home/user# more /etc/network/interfaces
# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
allow-hotplug eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

I got this tut from:
http://www.debianadmin.com/rename-network-interface-using-udev-in-linux.html

if really the card isn't yet working, as it should, you can

enter:
ifconfig eth0 192.168.x.x up

New NIC Card

Ron McLeod, TX
Thank you kindly for your response. I'll give it a try and report back.

Regards,

Ron

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