Re: [CentOS] is there a way to make the kernel see a new ethernet device without rebooting?

On Tue, 27 Sep 2011, Jon Detert wrote:

I have a VMWare ESX server with virtual machines running CentOS. I want to add an ethernet interface to one of the CentOS virtual machines. VMWare allowed me to add a virtual NIC to the CentOS virtual machine while it was running. However, the CentOS o.s. cannot see the new NIC. Is there a command I can run to make the kernel aware of the new ethernet device? I don't want to reboot the CentOS o.s. if I don't have to

Adding a NIC to VMWare with a CentOS 6 guest (e1000) works just fine here. I don't remember there being any problems with CentOS 5.

Does dmesg show evidence of the new device being attached?

jh