installing a NIC card

[Derek Broughton]

usabdasc at aol.com wrote:

> /etc/network/interfaces seemed ok but it did have eth0, eth1 and eth2
> entries.? I assume that this is due to my modprobe commands.

No, it's due to manually editing the network configuration.
 
> /etc/iftab was empty except for comments.? 

Yeah, it's not necessary.

> I filled in the mac for eth0 

which will fix that NIC as eth0 - it's entirely possible for an interface to
come up as eth0 on one boot and as eth1 on another boot without it.
-- 
derek