[CentOS] Network card help please

Wed Sep 10 05:23:39 UTC 2008
Gary <gv-centos at letric.net>

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.


-- 
Gary