second nic card problems
 

I'm currently running slackware 9.1. I have install a second nic card, it detected alright but i cannot to get it to load at start. I can start it up once i get into shell and do a ifconfig eth1 up. i also cannot config the second card with ip address, i have try to do this with netconfig but dont seem to work. can anyone help how do i get this to load up at boot time like eth0 and config it as well. Currently eth0 work with the network.

Thank

if you're using dhcp, you can get an ip address for your second card by typing "dhcpcd eth1". to have it automatically done at boot time, edit your /etc/rc.d/inet1.conf. you'll find a bunch of fields arranged by network card. look for one that has something like DHCP_CLIENT[1] = "" (note: I'm not 100% sure it's called DHCP_CLIENT, but it starts with DHCP). as you see the quotes contain nothing between them. change that to DHCP_CLIENT[1]="yes"

A simple solution is adding "ifconfig eth1 up" in /etc/rc.d/rc.local

Thank for the help it did work editing local file. But i have other question, shoulden't slackware do this automaticly when it detect two nic card. Also how do config the second card i have try to use netconfig but how does it know which one ur trying to config, should a command like this work with netconfig "netconfig eth0" etc... work for the second card.