Re: ethernet card not recognized?

From: Jeff Kramer (bademail_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 08/05/03

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    Jim Fischer wrote:
    > Jeff Kramer wrote:
    >
    >> Much thanks to Lenard and Jim Fischer for responding! I've learned a
    >> few things! Gracias!!
    >>
    >> Here's the "lspci -v" output. Apparently it's not a pci card?
    >> -----------------------------------------------------------------
    >> 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 430FX - 82437FX TSC [Triton I] (rev 02)
    >> Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64
    >>
    >> 00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82371FB PIIX ISA [Triton I] (rev 02)
    >> Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0
    >>
    >> 00:0d.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. 86c968 [Vision 968 VRAM]
    >> rev 0 (prog-if 00 [VGA])
    >> Flags: stepping, medium devsel, IRQ 11
    >> Memory at 10000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64M]
    >> Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=64K]
    >> -----------------------------------------------------------------
    >>
    >> Apparently it's an ISA bus card, right?
    >
    >
    > Probably.
    >
    >> I'm trying to avoid taking my box apart to look at the card, but I may
    >> have to. I believe it's a 3Com card (but not sure). I'll try finding
    >> and downloading scanport to see if that helps...?
    >
    >
    > BTW, here is a web site that has some additional ISA bus tools:
    >
    > http://www.roestock.demon.co.uk/isapnptools/
    >
    > See also the "Plug-n-Play HOWTO" at,
    >
    > http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Plug-and-Play-HOWTO.html
    >
    > FWIW, I "rolled" my own SRPMs for the 'scanport' and 'isapnptools'
    > packages. Unfortunately I don't have any ISA cards installed in my PCs,
    > so I don't know if these utilities actually work with a RH9 box (i.e., a
    > Linux 2.4.20 kernel) or not. FWIW, I tried invoking the binaries and
    > they all seemed well-behaved (they didn't crash my RH9 box). So if you'd
    > like me to email you copies of the SRPMs, let me know.
    >
    >> Both Windows 98 and NT recognized the card, no problem.
    >> Unfortunately, I overwrote both OSs, so I cant' get their info. ;-(
    >
    >
    > Doh!
    >

    Thanks! I've taken a quick look at those web sites and I'll definitely
    be going back for a longer look. Good stuff!

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