NIC not detected

HP Proliant DL385 running RHEL ES v4 update 2 (Linux 2.6.9-22.0.2.ELsmp
#1 SMP Thu Jan 5 17:11:56 EST 2006 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux) with
3com 3c905cx-tx-m installed (and confirmed seated well - LNK & ACT
lights are lit)

BIOS PCI devices reports:

PCI Embedded USB Controller 1 IRQ: 5
PCI Embedded USB Controller 2 IRQ: 5
PCI Embedded HP Integrated Lights-OUt Controller IRQ: 7
PCI Embedded HP Integrated Lights-OUt Processor IRQ: 10
PCI Embedded HP Smart Array Controller IRQ: 7
PCI Embedded HP NC7782 Gigabit Server Adapter Port1 IRQ: 7
PCI Embedded HP NC7782 Gigabit Server Adapter Port2 IRQ: 10
PCI Slot 1 Ethernet Network Controller IRQ: 11

lspci reports:
00:03.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8111 PCI (rev 07)
00:04.0 ISA bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8111 LPC (rev 05)
00:04.1 IDE interface: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8111 IDE (rev
03)
00:04.3 Bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8111 ACPI (rev 05)
00:07.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8131 PCI-X Bridge
(rev 12)
00:07.1 PIC: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8131 PCI-X IOAPIC (rev
01)
00:08.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8131 PCI-X Bridge
(rev 12)
00:08.1 PIC: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8131 PCI-X IOAPIC (rev
01)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
Miscellaneous Control
00:19.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:19.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
Address Map
00:19.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
DRAM Controller
00:19.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
Miscellaneous Control
01:00.0 USB Controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8111 USB (rev
0b)
01:00.1 USB Controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8111 USB (rev
0b)
01:02.0 System peripheral: Compaq Computer Corporation Integrated
Lights Out Controller (rev 01)
01:02.2 System peripheral: Compaq Computer Corporation Integrated
Lights Out Processor (rev 01)
01:03.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL (rev
27)
02:04.0 RAID bus controller: Compaq Computer Corporation Smart Array
64xx (rev 01)
03:06.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5704
Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10)
03:06.1 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5704
Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10)

I have reseated both the card numerous times in different PCI slots as
well as trying a total of 8 different Network Cards with various
chipsets. Again, currently there is a 3Com 3com 3c905cx-tx-m installed.
But have also tried:

3Com 3C980C-TXM
Intel Pro 100
Netgear FA311
DFE-520TX+ (3 different chipsets RTL & via-rhine's)

Thank you in advance for your help! I would be glad to provide further
information if needed.

>NIC not detected on HP Proliant DL385 running RHEL ES v4 update 2 (Linux 2.6.9-22.0.2.ELsmp
#1 SMP Thu Jan 5 17:11:56 EST 2006 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux) with

3com 3c905cx-tx-m installed (and confirmed seated well - LNK & ACT
lights are lit)

After looking at this for over 12 hours I finally started undoing some
of things I had performed post RHEL install. Turning acpi=off
apparently made this issue appear. When I removed that from grub.conf
the card was detected and functioned as expected!!!!

However when I have acpi=off, my cpu speed does not get listed
correctly and I get alot of acpi fails in dmesg:

shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:\_SB_.CFG1.PCI3 _HPP fail=0x5
shpchp: acpi_pciehprm:\_SB_.CFG1.PCI3 OSHP fails=0x5
shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:\_SB_.CFG1.PCI3 _HPP fail=0x5
shpchp: acpi_pciehprm:\_SB_.CFG1.PCI3 OSHP fails=0x5
shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:\_SB_.CFG1.PCI3 _HPP fail=0x5
shpchp: acpi_pciehprm:\_SB_.CFG1.PCI3 OSHP fails=0x5
shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:\_SB_.CFG1.PCI3 _HPP fail=0x5
shpchp: acpi_pciehprm:\_SB_.CFG1.PCI3 OSHP fails=0x5
shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:\_SB_.CFG1.PCI3 _HPP fail=0x5
shpchp: acpi_pciehprm:\_SB_.CFG1.PCI3 OSHP fails=0x5
shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:\_SB_.CFG1.PCI3 _HPP fail=0x5
shpchp: acpi_pciehprm:\_SB_.CFG1.PCI3 OSHP fails=0x5
shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:\_SB_.CFG1.PCI3 _HPP fail=0x5
shpchp: acpi_pciehprm:\_SB_.CFG1.PCI3 OSHP fails=0x5
shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:\_SB_.CFG1.PCI3 _HPP fail=0x5
shpchp: acpi_pciehprm:\_SB_.CFG1.PCI3 OSHP fails=0x5

hobbzilla wrote:

>>NIC not detected on HP Proliant DL385 running RHEL ES v4 update 2 (Linux
>>2.6.9-22.0.2.ELsmp
> #1 SMP Thu Jan 5 17:11:56 EST 2006 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux) with
>
> 3com 3c905cx-tx-m installed (and confirmed seated well - LNK & ACT
> lights are lit)
>
> After looking at this for over 12 hours I finally started undoing some
> of things I had performed post RHEL install. Turning acpi=off
> apparently made this issue appear. When I removed that from grub.conf
> the card was detected and functioned as expected!!!!
>
> However when I have acpi=off, my cpu speed does not get listed
> correctly and I get alot of acpi fails in dmesg:
>
> shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:\_SB_.CFG1.PCI3 _HPP fail=0x5
<snip>

Well, you are turning ACPI off. Why would you expect ACPI stuff to work?

>> However when I have acpi=off, my cpu speed does not get listed
correctly and I get alot of acpi fails in dmesg:

> Well, you are turning ACPI off. Why would you expect ACPI stuff to work?

This was a typo. I meant to say When I don't have acpi=off my cpu speed
does not get recognized correctly AND I get ACPI errors in dmesg..
which is why I set it to acpi=off. To make the errors go away and to
get '/proc/cpuinfo' to display the correct cpu speed.