D'oh!

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 07:17:59AM -0500, chris-n/jUll39koHNgV/OU4+dkA at public.gmane.org wrote:
> Okay, I tried that. That gave me the 'Network Settings' interface. The only 
> 'Connection ' listed is 'Wired Connection (Address: dhcp)'. It won't let me 
> make a brand-new connection - onl an alias. So, I created an alias 'devon1' 
> with ip adress 191.168.0.9 but it still won't show up when I run 
> /sbin/ifconfig. 

Do you physically have another network port to add as a new connection?
If not then all you can do is edit an existing entry, or add an alias to
an existing interface.  Software can't create physical ports out of thin
air.

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