Re: [LUNI] What's the real deal with network cards

From: Jack Beglinger (jackb_guppy@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Mar 02 2001 - 12:47:36 CST

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    try turning the PLUG and PLAY OS setting in the BIOS to NO.

    Fixed a few new athlon motherboards, when not running windows.

    > The card isn't being recognized at boot time. I just talked to my bro on
    > instant messenger and he told me he reinstalled Windows on a partition and
    > the card is working fine. He's brand spanking new at this and my computer
    > has always found both my ethernet cards at bootup. I wish I could find the
    > answer at the Linux Documentation Project :-/.
    >
    > Quoted from the Book of Michael Knoop Ch 6:7-13 on 3/1/01 1:07 PM:
    >
    > > Oops, my bad. You don't need root access to see /var/log/dmesg.
    > >
    > > If the NIC is being recognized by the OS during boot, then there will be an
    > > entry in the file dmesg starting with "eth0:" that should give you some useful
    > > information. On debian it is found in /var/log/. If you have booted the
    > > system recently, you can just run the command "dmesg | less" and you should
    > > see it towards the end. Of course, if the card is not being recognized at
    > > boot time, then there won't be any entry at all for that "eth" number.
    >
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