[clug-talk] Wireless PCI card not seen by system/lspci.

[Colin]

I believe all PCI wireless cards require PCI 2.2 (all that I know of anyway)
which your Deskpro does not have. However this is just off the top of my
head.

-Colin

-----Original Message-----
From: clug-talk-bounces at clug.ca [mailto:clug-talk-bounces at clug.ca] On Behalf
Of Simon Wood
Sent: Friday, December 22, 2006 11:33 PM
To: CLUG General
Subject: [clug-talk] Wireless PCI card not seen by system/lspci.

Hi all,
I have a weird problem. I am attempting to get a PCI wireless card working
in an older machine (Compaq Deskpro 4000, sub-desktop with 1 shared PCI/ISA
slot).

The wireless card is simply not seen/detected by the system, it fails to
show up in 'lspci'. I am confident that the card functions (does in another
machine) and the slot functions for another card.

I am stumped, so any comments would be welcome.
Simon.


More details....

With 'working card' (ethernet in 00:0c.0)
---
simon at node-1:~$ lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C595/97 [Apollo VP2/97]
(rev 03)
0000:00:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
RTL-8029(AS)
0000:00:0f.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. 86c775/86c785 [Trio 64V2/DX
or /GX] (rev 16)
0000:00:10.0 Network controller: Compaq Computer Corporation Netelligent
10/100 TX Embedded UTP (rev 10)
0000:00:14.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586/A/B PCI-to-ISA
[Apollo VP] (rev 31)
0000:00:14.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc.
VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
0000:00:14.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1
Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:14.3 Non-VGA unclassified device: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586B
ACPI (rev 01)
---

With 'missing' card (RT2640 based wireless)
---
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C595/97 [Apollo VP2/97]
(rev 03)
0000:00:0f.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. 86c775/86c785 [Trio 64V2/DX
or /GX] (rev 16)
0000:00:10.0 Network controller: Compaq Computer Corporation Netelligent
10/100 TX Embedded UTP (rev 10)
0000:00:14.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586/A/B PCI-to-ISA
[Apollo VP] (rev 31)
0000:00:14.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc.
VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
0000:00:14.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1
Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:14.3 Non-VGA unclassified device: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586B
ACPI (rev 01)
---

Wireless card working in other machine
---
[root at asterisk1 ~]# lspci  -s 00:0e.0
00:0e.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2500 802.11g Cardbus/mini-PCI (rev 01)
[root at asterisk1 ~]# lspci -n -s 00:0e.0
00:0e.0 Class 0280: 1814:0201 (rev 01)
---

Socket on non-working PC is keyed for 5V. Ethernet card is keyed for 5v
only. Wireless card is keyed 5v/3v. Socket on working machine is also keyed
5v.


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