Hi John,
On Tue, 09 Sep 2008 22:01:51 -0700 UTC (9/10/2008, 12:01 AM -0500 UTC my time), John R Pierce wrote:
It is the same Linksys card that is already recognized. CentOS effectively uses the Linksys as ADMTek NC100 for Linksys immediately recognized with no problem. It just will not recognize this third card at all, not even seeing it using lspci, which shows no Ethernet controller for the same 3rd card ..
J> does LSPCI not even show the 3rd card?!?
No, not at all...
in part
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 12)
Drivers for the above mobo eth are not installed. I always have had problems eventually with Gigabit dropping packets, so I did not use this built in eth, just the Linksys PCI NICs.
05:01.0 Ethernet controller: ADMtek NC100 Network Everywhere Fast Ethernet 10/100 (rev 11) 05:02.0 Ethernet controller: ADMtek NC100 Network Everywhere Fast Ethernet 10/100 (rev 11)
J> each PCI device has A) a bus/card/function # (determined by the J> motherboard slot and such), and B) a vendor/device ID # (hard coded on J> the card)
J> a typical system...
many thanks for this detailed explanation.