Re: [?] PCI BIOS masks some IDs to prevent OS detection?

[Alan Cox]

On Gwe, 2006-01-13 at 14:45 -0800, Joshua Kwan wrote:
> He recently installed a PCI RAID card, and ever since, his Ethernet
> card stopped working. Further investigation revealed that his
> Realtek 8139 (10ec:8139) card had become 10ec:0139, and his 3Com Cyclone
> card had become 10b7:1055 from 10b7:9055.
> 
> Did the PCI bus decide to mask those PCI IDs to prevent some sort of
> resource conflict that would ensue from loading an appropriate driver
> for these devices?

You just need to plug the cards in properly.

Alan
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