Re: LSPCI shows network card, but the card refuses to come up

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 18:37:09 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:

> Camaleón wrote:
>> Bijoy Lobo wrote:
>> > I have 2 cards on my system. I had no errors while Expert Install of
>> > Debian netinstall. even lspci shows me 2 ethernet controllers,
>> > However I cannot bring the 2nd interface up.
>>
>> Show us the output of these two commands:
>> 
>> lspci -v | grep -i ether
> 
> Ahem...  'lspci | grep -i eth' is good but 'lspci -v' is paragraph
> formatted and so finding that with grep is more trouble.  You need a
> "paragraph grep" of which there are many different programs and
> techniques.  Perl is always available these days so perhaps using perl
> is easiest.
> 
>   lspci -v | perl -00 -ne 'm/eth/i && print'
> 
> The extra -v information isn't usually useful though.  YMMV.

(...)

Let's try out both:

sm01@stt008:~$ lspci -v | grep -i ether
00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82566DM-2 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 02)
11:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10)
	Subsystem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet

	Subsystem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet



sm01@stt008:~$ lspci -v | perl -00 -ne 'm/eth/i && print'
00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82566DM-2 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 02)
	Subsystem: Super Micro Computer Inc Device 10bd
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 1276
	Memory at dc600000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
	Memory at dc625000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
	I/O ports at 1820 [size=32]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: e1000e
	Kernel modules: e1000e

11:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10)
	Subsystem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet
	Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 20
	I/O ports at 2000 [size=256]
	Memory at dc300000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
	[virtual] Expansion ROM at dc400000 [disabled] [size=128K]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: r8169
	Kernel modules: r8169

Nah, yours is too verbose for this matter ;-). Indeed, the extra information 
(-v) can be omited as we just wanted to know what card it was.

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón