> From: G. Bruce Williams sysadm <will@cisulab.uab.edu>
..
> I have a Pentium II 300 and am trying to run Linux 2.0.30 with the latest
> 3c59x.c. This is in a Gateway 2000 PC and presumably has the new LX chipset.
>
> The problem is that the probe routine does not recognize the card and issues
> the message "Unknown PCI device..." . I have reseated the card and changed
> PCI slots to no avail. Other devices on the PCI bus (AHA2940 and Video card)
> work OK.
This message come from the /proc/pci code.
It's just reporting that it won't be able to describe your card by name in
/proc/pci. BFD.
The driver will work fine.
[[ Flame to linux-kernel: I answer similar questions all of the time.
Having a table of device names is pure kernel bloat.
Not only do these error message cause many spurious bug reports, when the
card is recognized the VendorID and DeviceID are no longer reported in
/proc/pci!
The new device names in the 2.0.31 kernel broken many of my PCI ethercard
diagnostic programs, which read /proc/pci looking for the proper devices.
Can't we get rid of the in-kernel translation and have the mapping from
VendorID/DeviceID to device name done by a user-level program? ]]
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