Forcing CentOS to load Ethernet Card

[lesmikesell at gmail.com (Les Mikesell)]

On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 12:29, Mark Sargent wrote:

> I changed ethernet card, and chose to retain the config for the previous
> one, and now when booting, get a mac address is different igonoring, msg
> or something to that effect, and upon booted, doing a ifconfig shows
> nothing for the new card. What cmd do I issue, to make the OS see the
> new card? Cheers.

Remove the HWADDR= line from
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
(and /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/ifcfg-eth0 if
it exists).
Then 'ifup eth0' or reboot.

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