On Wednesday 29 June 2005 11:58 am, Derek Jennings wrote: > On Wednesday 29 June 2005 16:08, Jamie Amundson wrote: > > After installing Mandrake 9.1 the on board network card is not > > recognized. If I disable/enable the network card in the BIOS, when > > booting the system recognizes missing/new hardware, but when running the > > configuration it does not find any devices. Is there a way to manually > > create the devices or force the system to see it? > > > > > > James > > Mandrake will recognise most network cards automatically. Very often when > it fails to recognise a network card it is due either to an interrupt > problem or an issue with the BIOS > > Try booting with some features disabled :- > Boot and at the Lilo screen enter ESC. You will be taken to a text prompt. > Enter > linux noapic noacpi nolapic > It will then continue booting. > > If your network card then works try again with only two of the features > disabled and so on until you find which one is the problem. We can then > show you how to make it boot that way by default. > > If that does not help then it may be an Interrupt issue. > In your BIOS set "PlugNPlayOS=no" if you have that parameter, and disable > any on board devices you are not using. If your BIOS allows you to select > an interrupt line for any of your devices try changing the lines selected. > Finally with some motherboards moving PCI cards to different slots will > cause interrupt lines to be allocated differently. > > Other things you may find helpful :-= > In a terminal enter 'dmesg' to see the boot messages. You should see > messages about the on board network device being discovered. > In a terminal enter 'lspci' for a list of all the devices on the PCI bus > Your Ethernet should be listed. > > HTH > > derek
-- I tried changing the boot options and it made no difference. My BIOS does not have any plugNPlayOS option, so I disable all onboard devices not being used. Still nothing. Running lspci, I do see an Ethernet Contoller: Intel Corp: Unknown device 1026 I do not see anything related to Ethernet in dmesg. The computer I am trying this on is a Dell 670 workstation, 3.2 Gig Zeon, 2 Gigs Ram, everything onboard except the video card. Off topic, the only reason I am still using version 9.1 is because I have not been able to compile the perl DBD::Sybase module on any other version. Is it very likely that the purchased version of Mandrake would have anything on it that would allow me to compile the Sybase module. My 9.1 version was purchased, all other version I have tried have been downloaded. James
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