intel dual netwokcard problem on epia-m

Jan Kneschke jan at kneschke.de
Thu Nov 27 12:05:01 CET 2003


On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 05:14:27PM +0100, Niki Waibel wrote:
> i think i found the main problem:
> 
> award bios / dual ethernet nic:
> ===
> # /sbin/lspci 

> 00:14.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 21154 PCI-to-PCI Bridge

> 02:04.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 0d)
> 02:05.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 0d)
> ===

> the dual eth controller seems to use bus #2 ??!!
> the normal eth controller bus #0.
> 
> is that some sort of virtual bus?
> the epia-m has only one pci bus... has it?

you see the pci-to-pci bridge ?

in general multi-port network-card have a pci-to-pci bridge and an interal
pci-bus for the different interfaces.

> niki

  Jan

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