Re: Installing a NIC

[Adam <adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>> The info does go into the ifcfg-eth0.  The control-panel application will
>> set up most of that if you can muddle though its "easy" to set up.
>The control panel application won't let me do anything to eth0 because it considers it an "unmanaged device".  Which I found out after a...
>find / -type f | xargs grep "unmanaged device" > /tmp/umdev.txt
>(Try it some time, it's not pretty)
>...is a device with no ifcfg file.  Now What?

De activate eth0, then add it using the control panel.  You may need to 
unload to module first.  Then eth0 will be a "managed device".  You can't
start it using ifconfig and then use control panel,  you have to use control
panel from the beginning.  Once you do that it should work quite nicely.