Re: [PLUG] Fast way to add nic card to Ubuntu Server

2021-07-08 Thread Ben Koenig
If netplan is causing problems just get rid of it and use one of the older methods. Just add your devices in /etc/network/interfaces and disable network manager and netplan. FWIW Slackware doesnt bother with predictable network names. We still use eth0, eth1 and so on. You have other options.

Re: [PLUG] Fast way to add nic card to Ubuntu Server

2021-07-08 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Thu, Jul 8, 2021, 09:16 Chuck Hast wrote: > For a desktop network manager does the magic. It sets things > up for netplan, the yaml file is the netplan config file. > > But server does not use network manager because it is > CLI only and NM is gui. It does us something called Subiquity > to se

Re: [PLUG] Fast way to add nic card to Ubuntu Server

2021-07-08 Thread Chuck Hast
For a desktop network manager does the magic. It sets things up for netplan, the yaml file is the netplan config file. But server does not use network manager because it is CLI only and NM is gui. It does us something called Subiquity to set the network stuff up, but once done it appears that you

Re: [PLUG] Fast way to add nic card to Ubuntu Server

2021-07-07 Thread Russell Senior
Also, this had some background information, including what appeared to be how to revert to old behavior: https://netplan.io/faq/ On Wed, Jul 7, 2021 at 5:50 PM Russell Senior wrote: > > Never heard of netplan. Went looking on a 20.04 desktop and found this: > > russell@vanhorn:~$ cat /etc/netp

Re: [PLUG] Fast way to add nic card to Ubuntu Server

2021-07-07 Thread Russell Senior
Never heard of netplan. Went looking on a 20.04 desktop and found this: russell@vanhorn:~$ cat /etc/netplan/01-network-manager-all.yaml # Let NetworkManager manage all devices on this system network: version: 2 renderer: NetworkManager On Wed, Jul 7, 2021 at 5:42 PM Michael Barnes wrote: > >

Re: [PLUG] Fast way to add nic card to Ubuntu Server

2021-07-07 Thread Michael Barnes
On Wed, Jul 7, 2021 at 5:03 PM Chuck Hast wrote: > No they were there the dmesg command brought them to the > surface and the rest was just adding them to the yaml file for > netplan, run netplan try and once happy netplan apply and THEN > I could see them in all of the usual tools. > > The other

Re: [PLUG] Fast way to add nic card to Ubuntu Server

2021-07-07 Thread Chuck Hast
No they were there the dmesg command brought them to the surface and the rest was just adding them to the yaml file for netplan, run netplan try and once happy netplan apply and THEN I could see them in all of the usual tools. The other thing I have found out about the stupid subiquiti installer i

Re: [PLUG] Fast way to add nic card to Ubuntu Server

2021-07-07 Thread Russell Senior
I have never installed Ubuntu Server, but I find that surprising. By default these days, interfaces will have "predictable" names, which I think is kind of a misnomer, but afaik should show up in the output of things like "ip a" or "ifconfig -a". It might be that your NIC needs firmware to operate,

[PLUG] Fast way to add nic card to Ubuntu Server

2021-07-07 Thread Chuck Hast
I had to add a nic card to an Ubuntu server. Appears that once the server has been setup it will not recognize a new card. You have to go in and find the port names, but in my case ifconfig, ip... etc only showed me the functioning cards nothing else, I was finally able to find them using dmesg |