----- Original Message ----- > From: "John Hodrien" <J.H.Hodrien at leeds.ac.uk> > To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos at centos.org> > Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2011 9:08:09 AM > Subject: 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 Adding the NIC in VMWare works fine for me too. It's just that the guest (CentOS) o.s. doesn't see the new NIC unless/until I reboot it. > don't remember there being any problems with CentOS 5. > > Does dmesg show evidence of the new device being attached? No. I wonder if it has to do with the type of NIC. In my case, vmware says it's of type 'flexible', and the CentOS o.s uses the 'pcnet32' driver for it. - JD