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Re: compaq 1700 pci ethernet



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	<patmahoney@gmx.net>
> 
> 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

Cheers,
Cristian

--
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education. -- Wilson Mizner



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