Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 2 Jan 2002 23:15:41 -0500 | From | "Eric S. Raymond" <> | Subject | Re: ISA slot detection on PCI systems? |
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Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>: > > Nobody has told me this is a real failure case yet. To cause a problem, > > the situation would have to be that DMI read fails to detect a card in > > use in an ISA slot. It's OK if it reports no slots when all slots are > > empty. > > Well, I just popped in an old 3com 509TP network card (non-PnP) into my > main box and dmidecode still failed to show the single ISA slot, only 4 > PCI and 1 AGP.
I realize this may sound like a dumb question...but are sure the card works and is not just an inert mass o' silicon? I have couple of 3c509s knocking around here myself and I'm not at all sure they're alive. -- <a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
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