[vortex] 3C905C-TX-M vs 3C905CX-TXM

Donald Becker becker@scyld.com
Mon Aug 19 21:11:02 2002


On Mon, 19 Aug 2002 osk@osk.ch wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 12:43:36PM -0400, Donald Becker wrote:
> > On Mon, 19 Aug 2002 osk@osk.ch wrote:
> > > On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 02:18:43PM +0200, Bogdan Costescu wrote:
> > > > On Sat, 17 Aug 2002 osk@osk.ch wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > The newer one, 3C905C-TX-M,  doesn't get detected on a "very old"
> > > > What do you mean by getting detected ? By the driver or by the PCI 
> > > > subsystem ? Does it appear when you do 'lspci -vvv' ?

[[ Answer: no ]]

> > Yup, it appears that you want the "missing-hardware@localhost" mailing
> > list.   (If a card doesn't show up PCI configuration space, the driver
> > cannot detect it.  It's likely the card is not plugged into the PCI slot.)
> 
> and I'am on drugs and just imagine it is there ;-)

Yup.  Drugs.  Drugs are bad.  (See "South Park" episode.)

> Same PC, same PCI slot, same kernel, same lspci but card is the
> older one (3C905C-TX-M), lspci reports this bit as well:

I can't think of a PCI change that prevent detection, except for voltage
requirement.  And PCI slots are keyed to indicate voltage support.

Anybody else have an idea about a cause for PCI non-detection?

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