Re: [CentOS] Network card help please

2008-09-10 Thread nate
John R Pierce wrote: IRQ's are fully sharable on PCI, all PCI devices can use a single hardware IRQ with no problems. In theory yes, in practice these days usually yes but it's by no means a guarantee it will work. It's been a few years since I had IRQ sharing issues, but when it did happen

Re: [CentOS] Network card help please

2008-09-10 Thread John R Pierce
nate wrote: John R Pierce wrote: IRQ's are fully sharable on PCI, all PCI devices can use a single hardware IRQ with no problems. In theory yes, in practice these days usually yes but it's by no means a guarantee it will work. It's been a few years since I had IRQ sharing issues, but

Re: [CentOS] Network card help please

2008-09-10 Thread Gary
Hi John, Nate, On Tue, 9 Sep 2008 23:49:27 -0700 (PDT) UTC (9/10/2008, 1:49 AM -0500 UTC my time), nate wrote: IRQ's are fully sharable on PCI, all PCI devices can use a single hardware IRQ with no problems. n In theory yes, in practice these days usually yes but it's by no n means a

[CentOS] Network card help please

2008-09-09 Thread Gary
Hi ya'll, Running v5 .. I have 2 Linksys PCI cards running already without any problems. These were recognized by the system as ADMTek NC100 cards, per usual... they run on eth0 and eth2 ... have for months no problems. I added a third Linksys PCI card to the mobo, fired the computer up,

Re: [CentOS] Network card help please

2008-09-09 Thread nate
Gary wrote: Can someone give me input on the steps needed to get this third NIC recognized please. run lspci to try to identify what network controller chip is on the third NIC. If that doesn't help then look at the chip on the physical card itself, and use google to try to match that up with

Re: [CentOS] Network card help please

2008-09-09 Thread John R Pierce
nate wrote: Linksys probably uses something shitty like Realtek chips or something, or worse(?) the same model name linksys card could potentially use a half dozen different chips depending on the version #, makes life real fun. ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Network card help please

2008-09-09 Thread Gary
Hi Nate, It is the same Linksys card that is already recognized. CentOS effectively uses the Linksys as ADMTek NC100 for Linksys immediately recognized with no problem. It just will not recognize this third card at all, not even seeing it using lspci, which shows no Ethernet controller for the

Re: [CentOS] Network card help please

2008-09-09 Thread Gary
Hi John, oh, boy.. will check on it early tomorrow... thanks. On Tue, 09 Sep 2008 21:40:00 -0700 UTC (9/9/2008, 11:40 PM -0500 UTC my time), John R Pierce wrote: Linksys probably uses something shitty like Realtek chips or something, or worse(?) J the same model name linksys card

Re: [CentOS] Network card help please

2008-09-09 Thread John R Pierce
Gary wrote: Hi Nate, It is the same Linksys card that is already recognized. CentOS effectively uses the Linksys as ADMTek NC100 for Linksys immediately recognized with no problem. It just will not recognize this third card at all, not even seeing it using lspci, which shows no Ethernet

Re: [CentOS] Network card help please

2008-09-09 Thread Gary
Hi John, On Tue, 09 Sep 2008 22:01:51 -0700 UTC (9/10/2008, 12:01 AM -0500 UTC my time), John R Pierce wrote: It is the same Linksys card that is already recognized. CentOS effectively uses the Linksys as ADMTek NC100 for Linksys immediately recognized with no problem. It just will not

Re: [CentOS] Network card help please

2008-09-09 Thread nate
Gary wrote: J does LSPCI not even show the 3rd card?!? No, not at all... If the PCI bus doesn't see it there's no way to get it working in linux(or any other OS for that matter). Perhaps there is an IRQ conflict, check the IRQs on the system, and try the NIC in a different PCI slot. Try

Re: [CentOS] Network card help please

2008-09-09 Thread Gary
Hi Nate, On Tue, 9 Sep 2008 22:29:38 -0700 (PDT) UTC (9/10/2008, 12:29 AM -0500 UTC my time), nate wrote: J does LSPCI not even show the 3rd card?!? No, not at all... n If the PCI bus doesn't see it there's no way to get it working n in linux(or any other OS for that matter). ... snip

Re: [CentOS] Network card help please

2008-09-09 Thread John R Pierce
nate wrote: Gary wrote: J does LSPCI not even show the 3rd card?!? No, not at all... If the PCI bus doesn't see it there's no way to get it working in linux(or any other OS for that matter). Perhaps there is an IRQ conflict, check the IRQs on the system, and try the NIC in a