Fedora can't detect PCI devices

[Chris Kloiber]

Have you tried the BIOS option that clears or resets "ESCD"? (Sorry, not 
in front of a machine I can reboot to get the right terminology). I had 
a similar problem with my Gigabyte board that disavowed all knowledge of 
one of the onboard NICs and the Firewire UUID was all 
"0000000000000000...". The "dmidecode" command claimed there was no 
SMBIOS on the system at all until this option was set once and the 
system rebooted. Then it all worked just fine. This only affected 
"virgin" motherboards as I had bought a second that had the same issue, 
and was pulling what little hair I have left out until I tried it.

Chris Kloiber

On 08/18/2010 09:02 PM, Brian C. Huffman wrote:
>    I just installed a new motherboard and memory in a machine that was
> previously working well.  Unfortunately now the machine won't detect any
> of the PCI cards that are installed.  The PCI-Express Video card is the
> exception - that's working fine.
>
> The motherboard in question is an Intel DP43BF.  I have 3 PCI cards: a
> PVR250, Maudio Delta DiO, and Fusion HD DVB card.  They don't show up in
> messages or in lspci -v
>
> Anyone have any suggestions?  I'd rather not return the board, but I've
> tried various kernel options to no avail.  :-(
>
> Thanks,
> Brian




-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: smime.p7s
Type: application/pkcs7-signature
Size: 6223 bytes
Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Url : http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/attachments/20100819/4b5153ee/attachment-0001.bin