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EDIT: NVRM I figured it out on my own.. I needed to edit a file and remove the Previous eth0 and then rename my eth1 to eth0. I would like to set a static IP adress though if anyone wants to help me out with that.

I will start off by saying that I am a complete newcomer to Linux. With that said though I am learning and I will try my best to do what I can.

I set up a cheap linux server using an old desktop computer to run a game server for a video game my friends and I play.

The server only had 2gb of ram though and it just wasn't cutting it. The mother board only had 2 slots and I only had 1gb sticks.

So I took the HDD with linux still installed on it and put it into another desktop I have that has 4 memory slots so I could have 4gb of RAM.

The thing is though now that I have moved the HDD OS and all to another computer with a diff motherboard the internet is not working. I can't get an Ip address with the /sbin/ifconfig command.

I need to be able to connect to the server of course so this isn't to good.

Its connected to a router and the router is using DHCP. I assume that since the HDD was in another computer with a different motherboard the Network adaptor information is still for that motherboard?

I'm not sure how linux handles that stuff..Also when I start Linux a message appears at boot screen that says "Waiting for network configuration"

If anyone could reccomend some steps for me to take I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks! EDIT: researching it some more it seems it probably renamed the new network adaptor to eth1 since there was already an eth0 from the previous motherboard. If do a ip addr show eth0 it says there is no eth0. I have no idea how to fix this though. From looking around it seems I need to make changes to a file?

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To setup static IP, we need to edit the interfaces file

sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces

The current entry would look like

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

You will need you need to change this to:

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
   address 192.168.x.x
   netmask 255.255.255.0
   network 192.168.0.0
   gateway 192.168.0.1
   dns-nameservers 8.8.8.8

You will have to change the addresses around depending on your network.

Then restart networking using sudo service networking restart. If that gives you trouble reboot the machine.

If your router is using DHCP, you can also consider to configure the router to assign a particular static IP to the server.

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