Pci hardware detection problem (Solved)

SubAtomic · Last edited by SubAtomic on Tue Feb 03, 2004 3:00 am; edited 1 time in total

Hello,

I have had my conexant hcfpcimodem working in gentoo for months ... until today.

I removed the card to do some testing with an external serial port modem, and now have placed the conexant card back into the case but gentoo cant see it anymore.

I have unmerged all my modem drivers and re-emerged the driver that previously ran the card with no luck. lspci does not show the card anymore, kppp cant find any /dev/modem or /dev/ttySHCF0, and the hcfpciconfig script runs and tells me that the modem is now available via /dev/ttySHCF0 but alas kppp cant see it and as I said earlier, lspci doesnt show the card in the output whereas it used to.

Please help.

Thanks.
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dsd · Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2004 10:31 am Post subject:

lspci scans the PCI bus, and is not dependant on which kernel you are running, which hardware the kernel supports, or which userspace software you have installed.

if lspci doesnt see it, you probably wont get anywhere with anything else.

are you sure the modem is pushed firmly down into the PCI slot?
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SubAtomic · Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2004 10:38 am Post subject:

Yes, I realise that lspci should see the card fine and I am sure the card is firmly in the slot as I am using it now (Im glad my old Redhat install has finally come in handy for something).

Thanks,
any other ideas?
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fleed · l33t Joined: 28 Aug 2002 Posts: 756 Location: London

AFAIK lspci does depend on the kernel since it scans /proc. I think lspci -H1 does it's own scanning so you could try that instead. On an old laptop I have lspci -H1 gives me the correct results whereas lspci by itself does not (it just formats whatever the kernel is telling it).

SubAtomic · Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2004 2:59 am Post subject:

Thanks all for the replies,

I needed to recompile my kernel because I wanted to add a few serial port features so I did that and just to be sure I took the card out and placed it back in as firmly as possible.

The card is once again seen by gentoo so I would guess that it just wasnt seated properly in its slot (strange that it still worked in Redhat, but as long as it works fine again in gentoo Im happy).

Thanks
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