nvid on ati = no 3com

[Carl Karsten]

For openers, I am an idiot, so consider that while reading the rest of this.

But, this seems like a serious problem: network config evaporated.

On April 1 I installed Hoary so I could test the nvidia drivers.  Except 
I forgot to put the nvidia card in and used an ATI Ragepro.  (I R idiot.)

The install went smooth, the log files show that it saw the a 3c905 card 
and loaded the driver:

root at curb:~ # grep 3c /var/log/installer/*
/var/log/installer/hardware-summary:info: /bin/report-hw: lspci: 
+-0b.0  3Com Corporation 3c905 100BaseTX [Boomerang]
/var/log/installer/hardware-summary:info: /bin/report-hw: lspci: 
0000:00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905 100BaseTX 
[Boomerang]
/var/log/installer/hardware-summary:info: /bin/report-hw: lspci: 
0000:00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905 100BaseTX 
[Boomerang]
/var/log/installer/hardware-summary:info: /bin/report-hw: lsmod: 3c59x 
                 37160   0
/var/log/installer/hardware-summary:info: /bin/report-hw: ioports: 
03c0-03df : vga+
/var/log/installer/syslog:Apr  1 09:46:28 kernel: 3c59x: Donald Becker 
and others. www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html
/var/log/installer/syslog:Apr  1 09:46:28 kernel: 0000:00:0b.0: 3Com PCI 
3c905 Boomerang 100baseTx at 0xe400. Vers LK1.1.19
/var/log/installer/syslog:Apr  1 09:46:48 pci.agent[5097]:      3c59x: 
already loaded
/var/log/installer/syslog:Apr  1 09:47:50 pci.agent[9420]:      3c59x: 
already loaded
root at curb:~ #


I started trying to test the nvidia stuff, and suddenly there was no 
eth0.  lspci still showed it, but dmesg didn't.  A net boot floppy from 
http://etherboot.sourceforge.net/ would see it, use it and I could boot 
into memtest86+ from my tftp server, so all the hardware is working right.

Anyone want so see any log files?

Carl K