Debian NIC problem

[acemcmac]

Nics are installed and mounted to ETH0 and ETH1. Both are momentarily on the same network and both should be able to pull a lease. Activity lights are on for both at the switch. Both appear in ifconfig when you specify the interface in the argument.

Eth1 is pulling an adress and is working fine, Eth0 simply appears unconfigured....

ifup eth1 - "interface already configured"
ifup eth0 - "ignoring unknown interface eth0=eth0"

what do I need to do to get Eth0 to behave like Eth1

 

[Nothinman]

NICs don't get mounted.

Interfaces are configured in /etc/network/interfaces, if all you want is DHCP you should just be able to copy the line for eth1 and change eth1 to eth0 (i.e. iface eth0 inet dhcp ). The interfaces manual page has more information on the format of the file if you want to get fancy.