On 16 Aug 1997, Torsten Hilbrich wrote: > Pete Harlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > It seems as if the mother board is a bit too new, > > > 7100-7113 and 1300 is unknown. > > > > I also had trouble like this (I don't remember the specific unknown > > numbers; the machine was a new Dec Venturis FX-2 with Pentium MMX). > > It disappeared when I installed Linus's (then-) latest patch, > > pre-2.0.31-6. It seems that he included a lot more pci devices there. > > > > The real question is > > > > > Can I ignore the warnings? > > > > And the answer from me is, I wish I knew! Our machine appeared to > > work fine despite the unknown devices. > > These message about unknown devices means that the Linux kernel has > found devices that it didn't know about (yet). In > /usr/src/linux/pci/pci.c is a table of PCI devices currently known to > Linux. If you have a relativly new (or some kind of exotic) hardware > Linux can't find the PCI id in this table and issue a warning message.
I have kernel-source 2.0.29 installed, and the date in /usr/src/linux/include/linux/pci.h is 1994, so it doesn't seem to be being kept up to date. This AIUI only affects the warnings, and has little to do with what the kernel can actually drive. > > You usually can ignore it but you will get problems if this devices > cannot be used because of being unknown. For example, if you have a > really new PCI SCSI adapter which is unknown to Linux you probably > will be unable to access it. I had NCR 875 SCSI cards supplied with two of my new machines, and the Debian 1.2 installation disks, and my 2.0.27 kernel, would not handle them. To check out that they were going to be supported, I got the patches from club-internet.fr and applied them, which did the trick. Then Debian 1.3 came out, and I installed the 2.0.29 kernel which also handles these cards. However, the date in the file /usr/src/linux/crivers/scsi/README.ncr53c8xx is 12 June 1995, whereas the patches I had tried came with the version dated 20 March 1997, which contains 50% more information. -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA U.K. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: +44 1908 653 739 fax: +44 1908 655 151 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
