[ale] Lost nic with new system

[Calvin Harrigan]

Jim wrote:
> No, I didn't.  In fact the enable/disable lan option is still not in the 
> bios but it came up enabled after the power cycle.  There are no LAN 
> settings of any kind.  There is a pci plug and play option, but most of 
> the settings there deal with the graphic card except the PCI IDE 
> BusMaster, which is enabled and they recommend not changing it.
>
> Jim.
>
> Jim.
> Louis Zamora wrote:
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>> Sounds like a bios setting needs to be tweaked. 
>> Did you have to change any settings after the upgrade?
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Jim
>> Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 6:58 AM
>> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
>> Subject: [ale] Lost nic with new system
>>
>> I bought a mb & cpu combo from Fry's recently.  It was one of the duo 
>> core Intel systems.  The mb is an Elitegroup (ECS).  It was suppose to 
>> have a lan according to the label on the box and there was a socket but 
>> it didn't work.  There was supposed to be a enable/disable switch in the
>>
>> bios but there wasn't either.  I filed a ticket with Elitegroup and they
>>
>> said to update my bios.  I did and that didn't help, or it didn't until 
>> I powered off the system.  But that's not the strangest part.  I 
>> installed a 8139 based nic so I could get it on the lan.  That worked 
>> great until I powered it off and back on.  Now the onboard lan works 
>> fine, but the pci nic is nowhere to be found, almost.  lspci doesn't 
>> show it, Win XP doesn't find it.  But strangely enough SuSE seemed to 
>> know there was something there, because I saw during boot where he 
>> detected another port but disabled it somehow.  It went by too fast to 
>> tell exactly what it said.  Lspci on SuSE didn't list is nor does
>> Ubuntu.
>>
>> I guess the next thing to do is move it to a different PCI slot, I have 
>> heard that sometimes helps, but I have no idea why it would.
>>
>> Anyone else with suggestions?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jim.
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Have you completely reset the BIOS by taking out the battery and
shorting the indicated pins?  I'd leave it sit shorted for 5 minutes or
so to make sure.  Are you sure the BIOS was updated?  Some BIOS can be
locked.
Not trying to be a naysayer, but that's why I avoid the low end stuff
like ECS like the plague.  There is a reason why they are so cheap.

Calvin