[ale] Lost nic with new system

[ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com (Jim)]

Calvin Harrigan wrote:
> Jim wrote:
>   
>> No, I didn't.  In fact the enable/disable lan option is still not in the 
>> bios but it came up enabled after the power cycle.  There are no LAN 
>> settings of any kind.  There is a pci plug and play option, but most of 
>> the settings there deal with the graphic card except the PCI IDE 
>> BusMaster, which is enabled and they recommend not changing it.
>>
>> Jim.
>>
>> Jim.
>> Louis Zamora wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> Sounds like a bios setting needs to be tweaked. 
>>> Did you have to change any settings after the upgrade?
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Jim
>>> Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 6:58 AM
>>> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
>>> Subject: [ale] Lost nic with new system
>>>
>>> I bought a mb & cpu combo from Fry's recently.  It was one of the duo 
>>> core Intel systems.  The mb is an Elitegroup (ECS).  It was suppose to 
>>> have a lan according to the label on the box and there was a socket but 
>>> it didn't work.  There was supposed to be a enable/disable switch in the
>>>
>>> bios but there wasn't either.  I filed a ticket with Elitegroup and they
>>>
>>> said to update my bios.  I did and that didn't help, or it didn't until 
>>> I powered off the system.  But that's not the strangest part.  I 
>>> installed a 8139 based nic so I could get it on the lan.  That worked 
>>> great until I powered it off and back on.  Now the onboard lan works 
>>> fine, but the pci nic is nowhere to be found, almost.  lspci doesn't 
>>> show it, Win XP doesn't find it.  But strangely enough SuSE seemed to 
>>> know there was something there, because I saw during boot where he 
>>> detected another port but disabled it somehow.  It went by too fast to 
>>> tell exactly what it said.  Lspci on SuSE didn't list is nor does
>>> Ubuntu.
>>>
>>> I guess the next thing to do is move it to a different PCI slot, I have 
>>> heard that sometimes helps, but I have no idea why it would.
>>>
>>> Anyone else with suggestions?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Jim.
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> Have you completely reset the BIOS by taking out the battery and
> shorting the indicated pins?  I'd leave it sit shorted for 5 minutes or
> so to make sure.  Are you sure the BIOS was updated?  Some BIOS can be
> locked.
> Not trying to be a naysayer, but that's why I avoid the low end stuff
> like ECS like the plague.  There is a reason why they are so cheap.
>
>   
No, I haven't reset the bios.  I don't do that as a general rule.  The 
less time I'm under the covers (in the box) the better off I am.  I'm 
sure the BIOS was updated since the lan started to work after I did that 
AND powered the system off. 

If this was a production system then I'd probably get something better, 
but it's just an experimental platform to try to learn something about 
Virtual Servers. 

Thanks for the suggestion.
Jim.