On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 12:40:56PM -0700, John Mendenhall wrote: > I booted an ultimate boot disk, with several small linux distros > on them. None of them found the card.
I'd personally go with a full-sized Linux distro, as it's more likely to have a complete driver set, but it does seem more like a hardware issue now. > I reseated the card. No go. > I tried another card I had, same model. Nothing. > I am doing this in a 1U box, so there is a pci 1u > riser card. Could it be the riser is bad? Or, > could the pci slot itself be bad? Yes it's possible. (But then again, I think you said the motherboard had an on-board NIC too, and that wasn't working either?) > What is the best way to test the pci slot? If you remove the motherboard from its case, can you insert a PCI card directly, not using the riser? If you have a PCI card which definitely works in another unit (say something which appears as fxp0 in another box), so much the better. Given that your on-board LAN isn't working either, maybe the motherboard has a serious fault. But you might not be able to return it until you can prove that *Windows* can't find any network cards either :-) Regards, Brian.
