SiS, Intel NIC, PCI and a bald head.

[Ed Robbins]

This is interesting, I had the exact same problem with an eracks machine, but 
the pci=bios at the boot prompt fixed it for me.  I installed with SuSe 8.1, 
specified the pci=bios and all is well.

Ed

On Tuesday 01 April 2003 00:14, Kurth Bemis wrote:
> here's the story...
>
> bought a machine from eracks.com with no OS installed (Duron
> 1.3g/128meg/20GHD) to be used as a fire wall/dhcp server for a client
> with a 256k pipe.
>
> I'm installing OpenBSD and after rebooting I notice that there isn't a
> network card, both of them are missing.....and of course the stock oBSD
> kern isn't compiled with support for /proc...
>
> so I install slackware 8.1 goes off without any problems.....but again
> upon rebooting - no NICS.  One is an intel pro/100s and the other is a
> SiS900.
>
> I see them both in my /proc/pci file, but that's it.  Not in anyplace
> else under /proc.
>
> BTW - they don't appear in ifconfig -a output, and yes - the kernel
> (2.4.18) is compiled for PCI support and for both nics.  Both cards are
> good.  I have tested them in other machines.
>
> And yes - I have tried pci=bios at boot time....it's a nogo.
>
> I've pulled all my hair out, and how I'm asking you to pull out your as
> well :-)
>
>
>
>
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