server woes

[Gary Greer]

Hi Christian,

I had a similar problem with a motherboard that used a via chipset. I
fixed it by appending 'pci=conf1' to the grub bootup.

Gary

On Sun, 2006-06-25 at 15:31 -0700, Christian Benito wrote:
> I've played with this some more. The root of my
> problem seems to be that my machine is ignoring
> my pci bus... as if it wasn't there. The video card
> in my agp slot is working, but nothing else is even
> showing up. 
> 
> Even if no cards/devices were present, lspci should
> show the various usb controllers and such, since they
> live on the pci bus. lspci shows me nothing.
> 
> I've looked in dmesg for anything relating to pci, 
> but that went nowhere.
> 
> I'm not sure where else to go with this. Any advice
> on what might be wrong with my pci bus would be
> appreciated.
> 
> Christian
> dicepool.com
> 
> p.s. Thanks for the suggestions JimD. I appreciate
> them, even if they haven't gotten me anywhere.
> 
> On 6/24/06, JimD <Jim at keeliegirl.dyndns.org> wrote:
>         Christian Benito wrote:
>         > Unfortunately, I don't know which kernel module 
>         > the card needs. I've tried to sus it out with
>         > lspci, but I don't get anything when I run it.
>         
>         What is the output of:
>         
>         dmesg | grep -i eth
>         
>         > Any advice on why lspci is failing me would be 
>         > helpfull. I've made sure that the pci module is
>         > loaded. Is there a module for the /proc filesystem?
>         
>         Is the NIC on board or a PCI card?  Is it old?  Could it be
>         broke?  If
>         it is onboard, have you check your BIOS to make sure it is
>         enabled? 
>         
>         Do you have the Ubuntu Dapper install CD?  If so, boot with
>         that.  If
>         your network card works, then you know it is not the
>         card.  You can also
>         then find out what module is used for your network card from
>         running the 
>         command above.
>         
>         > Thanks.
>         >
>         > Christian
>         
>         Jim
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