Red Hat Linux 7.0 two NICs installation

[scorpio5780]

I have a machine with dual boot Windows 2000 and Red Hat Linux 7.0 on it. I have 2 NICS in my machine, one NIC card working on it.
I want to add another NIC card to this machine because I want to use it as a proxy server, one NIC talking to Internet and another talking to the machine on the interior. The second NIC card is from D-LINK. And I got the driver for Linux 6.2 from their site.

I have tried my best to follow the instructions in the readme.txt file that came along with the driver. It mentioned to use "insmod driverfile.o" to add the driver module in the kernel. Its not working on my machine. Even commands like "netconfig" , "lsmod" aren't working.

Even if the driver works.... how to add the second NIC into the linux machine as "eth1".

I hope I have explained my problem.

Please respond if someone knows how it is done.

Thanks in advance

 

[Jabroni]

make sure you are su (root)... This is VERY important -- you can't even see netconfig or insmod without being root.

ifconfig will show you all of the current network adapters, you should have lo, and eth0 right now...

install the module into the kernel using insmod module_name.o

netconfig is a utility for RedHat dists for setting up the ethernet. After you install the module into the kernel this program will help you configure it to be eth0 and eth1.

Please post error messages you get when you try and install the module. Also post the name of the module you are trying to use. A lot of NICs use stanard modules that your RedHat dist may already have compiled and waiting to be loaded into the kernel.

I use Debian, but I will try and help...