Greetings.

When I installed Debian Sarge, the installer recognized two NICs and asked which one I wanted to use for the installation ... Now that I've completed the install, how do I tell it about the second NIC ?

Thanks

Kenn

I presume that it (eth1) is going to be used to communicate with other systems on the lan. It will need to be on a different subnet to eth0. The next thing is that you will have to decide whether it is going be a dhcp client or have a static address. The configuration is conatined in /etc/network/interfaces and this should be edited accordingly.
If you are going to have it as a dhcp client then add the following to the interfaces file;

auto eth1
iface eth1 inet dhcp

If you are going to use a static address then add;

auto eth1
iface eth1 inet static
address <ip_address>
netmask <XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX>

Having edited and saved the file from a root console do /etc/init.d/networking restart to implement the changes.

Hmmmm .... maybe I'm trying to make this harder than it is :-)

I knew everything that you just told me (thanks for refreshing my memory, though), but I assumed that I would have to configure the hardware as well. From what you've told me, simply editing the interfaces file should solve my problem.

Thanks so much!

kenn

Check /var/log/dmesg to see if the second card has been picked up. If it has it should tell you the details of the card type and the speed. If this is the case then merely setting the address as above will get the network working. If it's not listed then you'll have to install the driver.