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