detecting NIC's

[THUFIR HAWAT]

On 11/22/05, James Wilkinson <fedora at westexe.demon.co.uk> wrote:
..
> You could look in /proc/pci and trying to work out each of the devices
> are. You'd see PCI IDs looking something like 8086:1102. 8086 is the
> company code (in this case Intel), and 1102 the device ID. You can look
> them up at http://pci-ids.ucw.cz/iii/
>
> Or, on a boot CD, you could use lspci, which should give human-readable
> values.
>
> It's also worth looking at dmesg, /var/log/dmesg, or messages to see if
> either of them are mentioned.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> James.
..

It was a very simple and probably common mistake, easily fixed.  The
cards weren't properly inserted.  I've got the D-Link NIC working fine
and expect to bring the 3com NIC online shortly :)


Thanks for the help and advice, it really got me thinking,

-Thufir