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You will have to excuse my ignorance but I am very new to the linux/unix/ClearOS world! I am trying to figure out how to add an additional network card after initial install? Any help or guidance on where to look is greatly appreciated.

Very easy :

Power down clearOS

add your network card

Start ClearOS

Go to GUI

Go to Network- Settings- IP Settings

Use 'edit' button to assign role and ip settings of the new adapter (eth2,eth3,..) you've added.

Click update to apply settings

Thanks for the info, that was what i thought the process would be but am still having issues. The hardware seems to be detected but it does not show up under interfaces.

I show the following under Reports- System- Hardware Reports:

PCI Devices
- Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado]
- (2x) Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6105/VT6106S [Rhine-III]

Which is correct as I have 3 NICs. But when I go to Network- Settings- IP Settings I show only eth0 and eth1 under interfaces. eth0 is a VIA and eth1 is the 3Com. Is there something else that I have missed?

Thank you.

Some hints on doing this by hand here...

www.clearfoundation.com/component/option...c,view/id,4013/#4032

obviously your driver is different...

Thank you. I will try the info in the link. I am very hesitant to think that it is a driver issue as the nic that is missing is one of the 2 via cards (actually dlink branded nics), since one is fine but the other will not initialize but is detected and shown correctly in the hardware reports. I will update with what I find. If I do find it as a driver issue, I will post info in regards to that also. I have tested both nics in a wintel machine and both are fully functional and indicate the same hardware ids.

rebooting twice after adding a NIC worked for me.

After trying everyones suggestions and having no success. I decided to just rebuild the server. All nics came right up and functioned perfectly after this. I would like to thank everyone for their help.

I'm new to ClearOS and am loving it. Am no pro, but I needed to add a third NIC to create a DMZ. Sadly, Multiple reboots didn't do the trick for me.... So I had to do it manually.... and with help from posts in this forum and the web, it worked

I'm sure there are easier ways to do this, but this is how i went about it.

Logged onto a console, Alt+F2, and did the following;

To see if the third NIC had been detected, i did;

network.hwaddr: xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
network.hwaddr:yy:yy:yy:yy:yy:yy
network.hwaddr:zz:zz:zz:zz:zz:zz

so the third network.hwaddr above is for the new card.

To find the mac address of eth0 and eth1, i did,


Better still you could do; (be sure to use caps on HWaddr)


then; copy ifcfg-eth1 to ifcfg-eth2

then using your favourite text editor, vi, nano.....

change the lines,

DEVICE='eth1' to 'eth2'
IPADDR="192.168.X.X" to the desired ip of DMZ "10.0.x.x"
NETMASK="255.255.255.0" to desired mask
HWADDR="xx.xx.xx.xx.xx.xx" to the mac address of the new card.

save and exit.

then;


then Alt+F7 (to go back to the GUI) and voila there it was eth2 under network->Settings->Ipsettings.....

Great tips Amos!

Thanx to Amos! It work!