adding extra drivers on install

[Martin Maney]

On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 01:59:14AM +0200, Christian Casimir wrote:
> 0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host 
> bridge (rev 03)

Hmmmm.  I know the 440BX really well; the ZX is almost identical but
for omitting the memory ECC support; never heard of the DX before. 
There's probably no way to distinguish these from the inside, since
Intel chose to release different hardware with the same IDs.  Do you
perhaps know which north bridge is actually in the machine?  Or you
might tell us what model (or motherboard) it is.

> 0000:00:08.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev 80)
> 0000:00:08.1 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev 80)
> 0000:00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c556B CardBus 
> [Tornado] (rev 20)
> 0000:00:0a.1 Communication controller: 3Com Corporation Mini PCI 56k 
> Winmodem (rev 20)

These look like the same mini-pci card I have in the Inspiron, which
just works fine with Ubuntu (as well as Woody and Sarge, but not
Windows ME despite having the latest drivers from 3Com - go figure). 
However, they seem to be addressed as though they're internal to the
north bridge, which is certainly not the case if it's either a BX or
ZX.  Are these on-board, PCMCIA, or mini-pci?

> 0000:00:0b.0 Multimedia audio controller: Cirrus Logic Crystal CS4281 
> PCI Audio (rev 01)

The sound chip I don't know much about, but it too seems to be
addressed as though it were an integrated component.

> CS4281: probe of 0000:00:0b.0 failed with error -5

Abject failure, check.

> 3c59x: Donald Becker and others. www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html
> 0000:00:0a.0: 3Com PCI 3c556B Laptop Hurricane at 0x1400. Vers LK1.1.19
> PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:0a.0 to 64
>   ***WARNING*** No MII transceivers found!

I don't know if the "No MII" is one of those things that just happen
with some hardware configurations, but I don't get either of these from
the mini-pci card (3cn3ac1556b) version of the ethernet/modem combo -
exact same versions reported by lspci, same driver version.  But it
shows up on the far side of the north bridge, at 0000:02:06:{1,2}.

Considering the apparent vintage of the 440DX - the only vaguely useful
mention I could dredge out of Intel's web site was a press announcement
that dates it as a companion to very early mobile Celeron CPUs (266 and
300 MHz, zowie!) - it seems unlikely to have had an ethernet and modem
integrated into the chipset, so I think the unlikely PCI addresses
listed above are probably important clues.  I hope they are, anyway,
because I haven't, aside from them, a single clue what might be causing
your trouble.  :-/

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