On Thu, 23 Oct 1997, Daniel J. Mashao wrote:

> 
> > recognized in dmesg or 'cat /proc/pci'?  There are some configuration
> > options for these cards which may have to be set.
> I get a message when the kernel loads that indicates that the system has a
> problem with PCI devices. It gives warnings about Unknown PCI device. I
> think that is where my problem comes from, but then I did not get that
> from Redhat that was installed a few hours ago. 

>From what I've heard, the 'unknown PCI device' message is only cosmetic
and means that it is not identified as a device whose name is in the
database file. 

Are you identifying the ethernet card to the kernel?  I know this is often
required, although I have not had to do so myself (PnP BIOS here took care
of it). 

> 
> It may be that I have another problem that is obscured by the PCI stuff.

There's quite a bit of information in the Ethernet-HOWTO and PCI-HOWTO
which may be of help here.

Bob

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