Gary wrote: > Hi Nate, > > 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 .. > does LSPCI not even show the 3rd card?!? each PCI device has A) a bus/card/function # (determined by the motherboard slot and such), and B) a vendor/device ID # (hard coded on the card) a typical system... # lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Broadcom CMIC-WS Host Bridge (GC-LE chipset) (rev 13) 00:00.1 Host bridge: Broadcom CMIC-WS Host Bridge (GC-LE chipset) 00:00.2 Host bridge: Broadcom CMIC-LE 00:04.0 Class ff00: Dell Embedded Remote Access or ERA/O 00:04.1 Class ff00: Dell Remote Access Card III 00:04.2 IPMI SMIC interface: Dell Embedded Remote Access: BMC/SMIC device 00:0e.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL (rev 27) 00:0f.0 Host bridge: Broadcom CSB5 South Bridge (rev 93) 00:0f.1 IDE interface: Broadcom CSB5 IDE Controller (rev 93) 00:0f.2 USB Controller: Broadcom OSB4/CSB5 OHCI USB Controller (rev 05) 00:0f.3 ISA bridge: Broadcom CSB5 LPC bridge 00:10.0 Host bridge: Broadcom CIOB-X2 PCI-X I/O Bridge (rev 03) 00:10.2 Host bridge: Broadcom CIOB-X2 PCI-X I/O Bridge (rev 03) 00:11.0 Host bridge: Broadcom CIOB-X2 PCI-X I/O Bridge (rev 03) 00:11.2 Host bridge: Broadcom CIOB-X2 PCI-X I/O Bridge (rev 03) 01:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 07) 01:06.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! Game Port (rev 07) 01:08.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 07) 01:08.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! Game Port (rev 07) 02:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 07) 02:06.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! Game Port (rev 07) 03:06.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5701 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 15) 03:08.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5701 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 15) 04:08.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 80303 I/O Processor PCI-to-PCI Bridge (rev 01) 05:06.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7899P U160/m (rev 01) 05:06.1 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7899P U160/m (rev 01) the first field is the bus.slot.func number. on this particular server, bus 00, 03, 04, and 05 are on the mainboard, while busses 01 and 2 are actual PCI slots, this machine actually has 3 SB Live cards plugged into it as its a sound processor. bus 03 device 06 and 08 are the onboard broadcom ethernet controllers. this i the same system shown in numeric form... # lspci -n 00:00.0 0600: 1166:0012 (rev 13) 00:00.1 0600: 1166:0012 00:00.2 0600: 1166:0000 00:04.0 ff00: 1028:000c 00:04.1 ff00: 1028:0008 00:04.2 0c07: 1028:000d 00:0e.0 0300: 1002:4752 (rev 27) 00:0f.0 0600: 1166:0201 (rev 93) 00:0f.1 0101: 1166:0212 (rev 93) 00:0f.2 0c03: 1166:0220 (rev 05) 00:0f.3 0601: 1166:0225 00:10.0 0600: 1166:0101 (rev 03) 00:10.2 0600: 1166:0101 (rev 03) 00:11.0 0600: 1166:0101 (rev 03) 00:11.2 0600: 1166:0101 (rev 03) 01:06.0 0401: 1102:0002 (rev 07) 01:06.1 0980: 1102:7002 (rev 07) 01:08.0 0401: 1102:0002 (rev 07) 01:08.1 0980: 1102:7002 (rev 07) 02:06.0 0401: 1102:0002 (rev 07) 02:06.1 0980: 1102:7002 (rev 07) 03:06.0 0200: 14e4:1645 (rev 15) 03:08.0 0200: 14e4:1645 (rev 15) 04:08.0 0604: 8086:0309 (rev 01) 05:06.0 0100: 9005:00cf (rev 01) 05:06.1 0100: 9005:00cf (rev 01) for an example, 14e4 is broadcom's vendor ID and 14e4:1645 is the broadcom bcm5701 these are what the OS actually works with, the vendor:device ID is matched up with the device driver database I hope this helps.