[ale] [Aaug] VIA P4PB 400 Mainboard

[Chris Fowler]

Here is a thread in from aaug.  It appears he has a 6year old machine
that has VIA chipsets.  Ubuntu works fine with it but CentOS 5 does not.

lspci shows not device on the PCI bus.  He bought a new network card and
it did not see that either.  Is there a module that needs loading?

On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 20:25 -0400, Robert Copelan wrote:
> Yup. I took your advise and spent $11 on a Linksys card last night at Target.  It
> is recognized by all except CENTOS.. including OpenSUSE (which is installing now
> via the internet as a test). 
> 
> There must be something regarding the PCI system since lspci shows nothing and
> the other distros show several items in addition to the network card(s).  
> 
> Original reason for doing this was to get a standard Asterisk install that
> matched what y'all were doing this weekend.   I've been installing it since the
> early days of 0.9x versions back in 2002/2003 (can't remember which) on a Pentium
> 1 system so I'm comfortable with rolling it up from CVS if needed.    
> 
> Getting CENTOS going is now just become a bugging challenge. 
> 
> On Thu Apr 24 20:11 , Chris Fowler <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> sent:
> 
> >
> >On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 19:09 -0400, Robert Copelan wrote:
> >> Thanks to Chris for this and several other suggestions.  It seems that CENTOS 5
> >> just doesn't like my system.  PuppyLinux and Umbutu both find the onboard card as
> >> well as 2 others that I installed in PCI slots.  However CENTOS just doesn't seem
> >> to find any PCI devices.  lspci -v shows nothing.   Evidently something is
> >> different in how CENTOS scans for PCI.  
> >> 
> >> Does anyone know of anything that needs to be done in order to get CENTOS to
> >> recoginze the PCI subsystem on the VIA boards?  Maybe I'll just have to use a
> >> different distro.  
> >> 
> >
> >Possibly something is missing.  CentOS5 uses the 2.6.18 kernel.  That
> >should clearly have your card.  If you are building this box for * I
> >think what you should do is spend about $10 on a PCI card and load
> >CentOS.
> >
> >after you do the kernel updates your card might been seen.
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