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

[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, and that's what prevents it showing up. What NIC
is it?  What does lspci say?

On Wed, Jul 7, 2021 at 3:08 PM Chuck Hast <wchast at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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 | grep -i network, to see them. After that
> I then had to  go in and modify the netplan yaml file and run netplan
> try to see if they were seen, indeed they were.
>
> Seems there should be a way to run the installer that did all of that
> magic initially to short circuit the time it takes to do all of that just to
> find out what the new port(s) are. In this case it was a fibre card that
> replaced the copper paths to/from the Zoneminder server. Subiquiti
> appears to be what does this, so why is there not a way to at least
> run the network part to discover a card and get on with getting it
> online avoiding having to putz with netplan and all of that. Anyone
> have any ideas or is that just the way it is?
>
> I tried all of the usual discovery tools to try to find those two ports but
> not one of them displayed them, only the dmesg command above
> worked.
>
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