setting up new nic card on old version of Fedora

loum24 · 11-23-2007, 11:40 PM

Hello,

I'm very new to Linux. We have a server on our network (using Solaris 8) that may have had a faulty nic card. So I've installed a new network card on it. Now I would like to use that card instead of the old one which is attached to the motherboard. The only o/s on this machine is an older version of Fedora.

Thank you.

btmiller · 11-23-2007, 11:57 PM

I'm confused -- is the machine running Solaris or the old version of Fedora? In either case, ifconfig -a should show both the old, failing card and the new card. In Fedora you can create new interface files in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts -- look at the scripts for the existing NIC card to give you an idea what you need to do.

loum24 · 11-26-2007, 10:59 AM

Thank you for your response. It was very helpful. This machine has Fedora running on it, but it accesses disks on a network running Solaris 8.

ifconfig -a showed both network cards as you stated.

Then I renamed the script ifcfg-eth0 to ifcfg-eth1 and changed "DEVICE" and "HWADDR" to the new device (eth1) and hardware address (given by ifconfig -a).