Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] NIC driver problem

[Zsolt Z. <zs...@si...>]

On November 25, 2002 02:50 pm, Chris Allen wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 02:08:27PM -0500, Zsolt Zsoldos wrote:
[snip]
> > I burnt the CD and it booted up, but both of the NIC driver
> > modules fail to load with the same error message: they
> > claim that the hardware is not found. However, the same
> > hardware is recognised and the driver modules are loaded
> > OK under Mandrake Linux 8.0 as well as 8.2 when I boot the
[snip]
>
> How about posting a copy of your boot messages (dmesg)...
>

I took a closer look at the dmesg output for both Devil-linux and
Mandrake, and found that the problem comes from much earlier,
not when the modules are loaded. The root of the problem is, 
that Devil-linux does not recognise the PCI bus at all, it says
there is no PCI. OTOH, Mandrake can communicate with the PCI.

I have attached the dmesg output of both Devil-linux and the
Mandrake 8.0 rescue-boot on the same hardware. I also
attached the output of 'modprobe -v' for the two NIC drivers
on Devil-linux (dmesg only containes the name of those modules
without any error message).

I tried to play around with various BIOS settings regarding the
PCI-bus (e.g. enable/disable fast back-to-back and similar) in
hope that it might help, but the result remained the same...

Do you have any other idea I could try ?
Regards,
-- 
Zsolt Zsoldos, zs...@si..., http://www.simbiosys.ca/