On Monday, March 31, 2003, at 10:28 PM, James Washer wrote:
There are many different 3com cards..
First step... do an 'lspic' and send this to the group... we have to first make sure the card is seen in the pci bus ( I'm assuming here that this IS a pci card).
##### Thanks for the reply Jim and thanks Tim for the typo correction. The NIC is a PCI card.
I tried 'lspci' and was told there was no such command. I thought maybe I needed some parameters, so I tried 'man lspci' and it said there was no man pages. I tried 'man ls' and got man pages, but there was no parameter for pci--I thought maybe 'ls -pci' might work, but that failed to return the information I was seeking. Obviously I'm doing something wrong. I'm still mostly a newbie at Linux, and, after running RedHat 8 for a little while, I'm just now setting up and investigating Mandrake 7.1 for the first time.
I finally found that the KDE Control Center could list PCI devices. Here's what it had to say about the NIC:
Bus 0, device 13, function 0:
Ethernet controller: 3Com Unknown device (rev 120).
Vendor id=10b7. Device id=9200,
I/O at 0xd400 [0xd401].
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xde800000 [0xde800000)
So, the system is identifying that the NIC exists. Sounds like a driver problem, doesn't it? How do I find a driver for a 3Com unknown device?
If the card is seen, we need to check that you have a driver for it... are you running a modular kernel? IF so, send us an ls of your nic drivers
ls /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/net/
##### This command didn't work. There is no /kernel folder. So, I couldn't check for drivers. The kernel is whatever Mandrake 7.1 installs--I don't know if it is modular or not.
That should be enough to get us started.. unless you want to throw in the boot messages from /var/log/messages showing the probe of devices, etc..
- jim
-- "Jay"
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