| <Amwyll> Hi. | |
| <Amwyll> Is anyone around? | |
| <GazzaK> hi Amwyll | |
| <Amwyll> I need some help with installing a 2nd NIC into a working box... | |
| <Amwyll> could someone help me out with that one? | |
| <GazzaK> eek, erm, #ubuntu would be best for support (as I am rubbish) | |
| <GazzaK> and no one else seems to say much here | |
| * dsas coughs | |
| <Amwyll> Yeah, well, they didn't have very much to say in #ubuntu either... :\ | |
| <dsas> Amwyll: What problems are you having? | |
| <Amwyll> dsas: I need to install a 2nd NIC into a working server and I CAN'T break the thing or take it offline for long | |
| <dsas> Amwyll: You're probably better of waiting until after whoevers using it, isn't. if you can. | |
| <dsas> Amwyll: Do you mean you need help doing a physical installation? | |
| <Amwyll> so I want to know whether I need to do anything special before taking it off-line, slapping the NIC in, and rebooting... So yes, I'm talking physical alright... | |
| <dsas> Amwyll: Not as far as I know. | |
| <GazzaK> physically then it is just a case of 1. making sure the hardware is correct, ie pci etc, and 2. removing blanking plate, insert nic, and doing the screw up. | |
| <Amwyll> dsas: what about drivers? | |
| <GazzaK> make sure to ground yourself on the metal case of the server first | |
| <Amwyll> dsas: 2nd nic is diff. make from 1st one | |
| <dsas> Amwyll: The relevant drivers should be picked up when you boot. | |
| <Amwyll> dsas: really? it'll auto-detect too? | |
| <dsas> Amwyll: That should still be fine, if the drivers for the second model exist at all. | |
| <dsas> Amwyll: it *should* do. there's not usually any problems with ethernet NICs | |
| <dsas> of course if it all goes tits up, it's nothing to do with me :) | |
| <Amwyll> dsas: I suppose they exist : we're talking garbage Realtek here... :p | |
| <Amwyll> dsas: I know, I know :) | |
| <Amwyll> dsas: And what if I want to hook up BOTH NICs to the same network? Any problems with that? (NOT talking about bonding) | |
| <dsas> I think I remember having a realtek NIC before and it working...probably on a 2.4 kernel though. | |
| <dsas> Amwyll: I wouldn't anticipate any problems. I've never tried it myself though :) | |
| <dsas> well, actually I have my wireless card and wired card on the same network on the same machine, and it's fine. | |
| <dsas> or at least, traffic is going out over at least one of the interfaces :) | |
| <Amwyll> dsas: Ok, so far sounds easy enough. | |
| <Amwyll> And if I pull out the original NIC later on, will the box know to use the new one as the default? | |
| <dsas> I'd assume so. | |
| <Amwyll> Hmm... Ok. Thanks for your time, dsas. | |
| <dsas> no problem | |
| * dsas lets the dust settle over the channel once more | |
| <GazzaK> lol | |
| <chrisbudden14> anyone get a level results today | |
| <kahrn> hi |