On Sun, Sep 24, 2000 at 10:38:20PM +0200, Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Sep 2000, Pat Mahoney wrote:
>
> > My friend has a compaq presario 1700 with a bultin ehternet card on the pci
> > bus. It may or may not be combined with a modem on the same card. We
> > cannot get the network card to work (potato install, kernel 2.2.17).
> >
> > Looking around at the kharker laptop site at various other compaq presarios,
> > I think the card should work with either the tulip, eexpress100
> > (EtherExpressPro/100).
> >
> > /proc/pci says the vendor and model are unknown. It says irq is 9 and io
> > port is 0x1400 [0x1401]. This sounds a bit high. Am I reading /proc/pci
> > correctly?
> >
> > I can't seem to specify irq or io port to the above modules, and neither of
> > them work.
> >
> > The laptop is a custom ordred thing so it may not have the same hardware as
> > other compaq 1700's. Any ideas though?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > --
> > Pat Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > If puns were deli meat, this would be the wurst.
>
> Install package pciutils, then run:
>
> # lspci -v
>
> You could also try diging into this (long) page:
>
> http://www.datashopper.dk/~finth/pci.html
Thanks, but it is not there. I found out what the soundcard is though. I
also tried to install mandrake to see if maybe it would auto detect it, but
no. This seems to be a case of "comcrap strikes again" :(
For the record, it is a CONEXANT (vendor id 14f1) device id 1803 (rev03).
>
> Cheers,
> Cristian
>
> --
> I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education. -- Wilson Mizner
>
--
Pat Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I had no shoes and I pitied myself. Then I met a man who had no feet,
so I took his shoes.
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