two network cards

[David Williamson]

On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 16:57 +0100, Wouter Eerdekens wrote:

> I don't know about the network config utility, but you'll need to
> 
> - load the appropiate kernel module at boot time (add the module to
>   /etc/modules)
> - configure the card settings in the file /etc/network/interfaces

Wouter, thanks.

Well, here's the thing... the 3c59x module is being loaded already, and
right now I have a 3c905 and the new card, a 3c900 boomerang.  And I've
just discovered that I can manually configure the card with ifconfig
eth1 <ip address, etc> but I'm confused because I thought the card
should "just show up" as long as its module was loaded (which it was as
far as I can tell).  I thought that doing "ifconfig" with no options
should show the first configured card and then the second non-configured
card, but it didn't.  But still I could manually configure it.

What is the normal debian behaviour when adding a second network card,
anyway?  I guess that's part of my confusion.

david williamson