Detecting ethernet card.

[Daniel Carrera]

Ok, I got it working but I don't really understand what I did. I edited 
/etc/network/interfaces and added a configuration for eth1:

auto eth1
iface eth1 inet dhcp

Then ran 'ifup eth1' and then it worked.

Question: Does this mean that 'ifup' does hardware detection? If you 
just add an entry in /etc/network/interfaces then 'ifup' will also try 
to detect the hardware?

I'd really like to understand how this works better.

Cheers,
Daniel.


Daniel Carrera wrote:
> I just re-installed Edubuntu and now it doesn't see the second ethernet 
> card (it did every time before). How can I run the hardware detection 
> again? What's the program that would detect an ethernet card?


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