[ale] Lost nic with new system

[James P. Kinney III]

On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 08:38 -0500, 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.

I strongly recommend running that board combo back to Fry's and getting
another combo from another board maker. Onboard devices that have no
control functions in bios sound like a long-term problem to me.
> 
> Jim.
> 
> Jim.
> Louis Zamora wrote:
> > 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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