Probing PCI devices not detected by BIOS

[M. Warner Losh]

In message: <415EC35E.6050602 at jonny.eng.br>
            João Carlos Mendes Luís <jonny at jonny.eng.br> writes:
:      My problem: I have an old ASUS P2B-DS motherboard based server, and want to 
: use a Realtek 8169 Gigabit LAN Card with it.  But the BIOS does not detect the 
: LAN card, I don't know why.  If I put the card in another computer, it is 
: detected perfectly.  Unless this is a hardware incompatibility problem, I would 
: expect FreeBSD to do a better job than the old BIOS.

Chances are good that you might have a problem.  I have a few devices
that don't appear on one of my machines because the machines are too
old and not compliant with the latest PCI standards.  I also have one
cardbus card that refuses to work on some machine due to, I think, bad
(no?) 3.3V power.

Warner