[SOLVED] New Nic configuration - Lenovo Tiny

sud0sm1th

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So I've added an new adapter to my wifi card to an ethernet Nic.
It's showing up with lspci
Bash:
root@Proxmox:~# lspci | grep Eth
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device 8126 (rev 01)
04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 1b)

But nothing with ip a or ip link show

Bash:
root@Proxmox:~# ip a | grep 1500
2: enp4s0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast master vmbr0 state UP group default qlen 1000
20: vmbr0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UP group default qlen 1000

Only one link comes up with:
nano /etc/network/interfaces
So I thought of adding another one manually like "enp3s0" or "enp5s0" but I don't know what name is attached to the interaface.
What I aslo thought was odd was the output of the interfaces file used "eno1" and "enp3s0" where the ip a shows "enp4s0"
see below:
Bash:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

iface eno1 inet manual
auto vmbr0
iface vmbr0 inet static
address 192.168.100.2/24
gateway 192.168.100.1
bridge-ports enp3s0
bridge-stp off
ridge-fd 0

How to i get the other interface to come up? I've rebooted and reset the network hoping it'll auto populate as it does seem to recognise both Nic's.
 
So I ended up binding the bridge to the interface via the GUI and then going back and checking the config file afterwards.

this is how it should look to work:

Bash:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

iface eno1 inet manual

iface enp4s0 inet manual

auto vmbr0
iface vmbr0 inet static
        address 192.168.100.2/24
        gateway 192.168.100.1
        bridge-ports enp4s0
        bridge-stp off
        bridge-fd 0

auto vmbr1
iface vmbr1 inet static
        address 192.168.100.4/24
        bridge-ports eno1
        bridge-stp off
        bridge-fd 0