[SOLVED] New NIC best practice?

[daaw_gees]

Using Proxmox VE for over a week and I love it. Been having that often reported problem with an onboard intel nic (random nic resets) and decided to buy a non-intel pci-nic. What's the best practice for getting that 'noticed' by Proxmox once the physical install is complete?

Thanks,
Nick

 

[Dunuin]

First you possibly need to attach a keyboard and display to your server because your server might not be available anymore as the NIC names change when adding a new PCIe device. Then you should check if your NICs chipset is supported by the 4.13 5.13 kernel. If not you might need to install the optional 4.15 5.15 kernel (which also might fix your problem with the onboard NIC).

 

[daaw_gees]

Yup, got all that ready once I slap it in there. It looks like I'm on a 5 series kernel unless I'm reading this wrong?

 

[Dunuin]

Ah, yes. I meant 5.13 and 5.15.

 

[daaw_gees]

Sounds simple enough (famous last words). I'll see what happens after I install it later.

 

[daaw_gees]

Works perfectly, thanks for the assist. No kernel update was needed. Just had to tell the bridge to use the other interface in the UI.