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