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From: felmon on 16 May 2010 16:00 greetings! I am at a loss. I just bought an Intel dp43bfl mainboard with the intention of running Debian and maybe OpenSuse on it. I have an old Hauppauge WinTV card (pci) that has done faithful service in all the computers I've had since purchasing it. I can vouch the tv card works fine - another system, similar kernel 2.6.3x, also Debian (Sid, I believe). after fruitless hrs of futzing, I realized that the card was not being detected. (it also failed to detect an old nic card I put in and removed. nothing about it shows up in hwinfo or in lspci. of course I have shifted the tv card into different slots (except one specific slot (slot 0?) because of irrelevant problem with placement of a cable). the guy at the computer shop said he tested the pci slots and they were fine. I believe his test consisted in putting in a pci video card and seeing if it 'posted'. I have no idea if this is an adequate test. he is all Windows and keeps going on about 'drivers' but my understanding is that lspci and hwinfo should reveal hardware no matter. everything else seems to work. I didn't realize it had a broadcom networking chipset but seems alright. I am eager for advice. Felmon
From: Thomas Richter on 16 May 2010 16:15 felmon wrote: > > nothing about it shows up in hwinfo or in lspci. If lspci doesn't show the card, it is broken. I once had a Nova TV from Hauppauge that showed the same symptoms. Returned it back to the shop, got a new one - and that worked. Greetings, Thomas
From: felmon on 16 May 2010 18:34 On Sun, 16 May 2010 22:15:59 +0200, Thomas Richter wrote: > felmon wrote: >> >> nothing about it shows up in hwinfo or in lspci. > > If lspci doesn't show the card, it is broken. I once had a Nova TV from > Hauppauge that showed the same symptoms. Returned it back to the shop, > got a new one - and that worked. > > Greetings, > Thomas I am skeptical. it works fine in a Lenovo Thinkcentre I have access to (had it running yesterday fine and I am sure when I put it back in the Thinkcentre, it will work again. and it worked fine on the motherboard I am trying to replace. further a garden-variety (albeit ancient) nic also fails to show up but I've used that nic for yrs in the other system. nothing I have (the tv card, the nic - netgear fa311 rev-b1) shows up on the pci bus. Felmon
From: Lusotec on 16 May 2010 19:21 felmon wrote: > On Sun, 16 May 2010 22:15:59 +0200, Thomas Richter wrote: > >> felmon wrote: >>> >>> nothing about it shows up in hwinfo or in lspci. >> >> If lspci doesn't show the card, it is broken. I once had a Nova TV from >> Hauppauge that showed the same symptoms. Returned it back to the shop, >> got a new one - and that worked. >> >> Greetings, >> Thomas > > I am skeptical. it works fine in a Lenovo Thinkcentre I have access to > (had it running yesterday fine and I am sure when I put it back in the > Thinkcentre, it will work again. > > and it worked fine on the motherboard I am trying to replace. > > further a garden-variety (albeit ancient) nic also fails to show up but > I've used that nic for yrs in the other system. > > nothing I have (the tv card, the nic - netgear fa311 rev-b1) shows up on > the pci bus. Maybe there is some incorrect settings in the BIOS. Try loading the defaults, or safe settings. It can also be the motherboard that has some problem. Regards.
From: felmon on 16 May 2010 21:22
On Mon, 17 May 2010 00:21:39 +0100, Lusotec wrote: > felmon wrote: > >> On Sun, 16 May 2010 22:15:59 +0200, Thomas Richter wrote: >> >>> felmon wrote: >>>> >>>> nothing about it shows up in hwinfo or in lspci. >>> >>> If lspci doesn't show the card, it is broken. I once had a Nova TV >>> from Hauppauge that showed the same symptoms. Returned it back to the >>> shop, got a new one - and that worked. >>> >>> Greetings, >>> Thomas >> >> I am skeptical. it works fine in a Lenovo Thinkcentre I have access to >> (had it running yesterday fine and I am sure when I put it back in the >> Thinkcentre, it will work again. >> >> and it worked fine on the motherboard I am trying to replace. >> >> further a garden-variety (albeit ancient) nic also fails to show up but >> I've used that nic for yrs in the other system. >> >> nothing I have (the tv card, the nic - netgear fa311 rev-b1) shows up >> on the pci bus. > > Maybe there is some incorrect settings in the BIOS. Try loading the > defaults, or safe settings. It can also be the motherboard that has some > problem. > > Regards. no joy. I tried both 'optimized defaults' and 'custom defaults'. like I said, I suspected the motherboard but the fellow did that 'post' test on two or three of the pci slots and was satisfied. I don't know if such a test is adequate. (bottomline for him is that he won't take the board back.) Felmon |