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On 10/28/2009 04:01 AM, Dale wrote: |
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> Mick wrote: |
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>> To read your PCI connected devices you need: |
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>> lspci -v |
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>> HTH. |
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> That is the key command in my opinion. That will tell you what driver |
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> it is using for what device. If it works while booted on the Live CD, |
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> then that driver is most likely what you need. Take the name of the |
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> driver, then search for it in menuconfig. You hit the "/" key to |
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> search. Its like the ? key without hitting shift. It should show you |
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> exactly where the driver is located so you can go enable it. Then you |
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> just recompile the kernel and copy it to /boot. |
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> This is what the output should look like: |
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> 01:08.0 Ethernet controller: Davicom Semiconductor, Inc. Ethernet 100/10 |
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> MBit (rev 31) |
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> Subsystem: ARCHTEK TELECOM Corp Device 0008 |
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> Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 16 |
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> I/O ports at 9800 [size=256] |
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> Memory at df002000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256] |
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> [virtual] Expansion ROM at 88100000 [disabled] [size=256K] |
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> Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 1 |
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> Kernel driver in use: dmfe |
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> The last line is the key. If I were searching for that driver, I would |
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> search for dmfe and enable it as built in or a module. |
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> If that command doesn't show the driver, then you may need to start with |
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> some of the other commands to see what you can test to get it working. |
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> Dale |
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> :-) :-) |
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I booted up the livecd and ran lspci -v, it worked great. I got similar |
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output to that above, and found out that I am using a "3Com Corporation |
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3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 78)" and that "Kernel driver in use: |
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3c59x". Great! Only problem was that when I went to look for that driver |
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in menuconfig, all I found were two other drivers for similar cards (one |
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of which had "[Typhoon]" in the name). |
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However, I enabled those drivers, recompiled, rebooted, and everything |
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works great. Thanks for all your help. |
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By the way, I have never had such great technical support before. I am |
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really amazed that within 12 hours, I had about 3 different ways of |
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fixing this, and was able to have it up and running within 45 minutes of |
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checking my email this morning. Wonderful! |
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