Re: Linux does not detect hardware
From: flupke (flupke_at_nonexistingdomain.com)
Date: 10/27/03
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Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 11:39:40 +0100
"Jorge Castro" <jcastro8dx@tiscali.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I have recently installed Debian/Linux version 3.0.23 on my Dell Inspirion
> 5150
> laptop (along with WindowsXP).
>
> So far I have had limited success: the kernel and utilities run, but I
> believe a lot of hardware
> was not detected: can't use modem, floppy, usb, etc.
>
> I am not sure what is the best next step from here to solve this problem?
>
> Meanwhile, I am trying to sort out the modem (I need it to download
> updates).
> This modem appear to be interfacing with the PCI bus, so I did a PCI scan
> by running "lspci -vvx" and this is the info I got back (only showing for
> the modem):
>
> 00:1f:6 Modem: Intel Corp. : Unknown device 24c6 (rev 01) (prog-if 00
> [Generic])
> Subsystem : Broadcom Corporation: Unknow device 4d64
> Control: I/O+
> Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF
> Latency : 0
> Interrupt : pin 8 routed to IRQ11
> Region 0: I/O ports at b400
> Region 1: I/O ports at bo80
> Capabilities: [50] Power management version 2
> Flag: PMECLK
> Status : D0 PME- Enable
> 00: 86 80 ................
> 10: 01 b4 ............
> 20: 00 00 ......
> 30: 00 00 .............
>
> I perhaps should add that all the other devices on the PCI bus are also
> "Unknown devices"
> including my NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200Go graphics card, firewire, etc.
>
> What are my options at this point to get the modem going?
>
> Thanks a lot in advance
>
> Jorge Castro
Debian has a few packages which can assist in hardware detection:
Hardware-recognition (and related) packages:
=============== snip ==============
discover
hardware identification system (thank you, Progeny Systems, Inc.)
mdetect
mouse device autodetection tool
read-edid
hardware information-gathering tool for VESA PnP monitors
sndconfig
sound configuration (thank you, Red Hat Software, Inc.)
hotplug
USB/PCI device hotplugging support, and network autoconfig
nictools-nopci
Diagnostic tools for many non-PCI ethernet cards
nictools-pci
Diagnostic tools for many PCI ethernet cards
mii-diag
A little tool to manipulate network cards
=============== snip ==============
You'll definitly want to install discover.
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