Probing PCI devices not detected by BIOS
M. Warner Losh
imp at bsdimp.com
Sat Oct 2 18:26:17 PDT 2004
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
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