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On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 22:52:14 +0100 Rob Beard wrote: > On 17/06/10 22:37, Grant Sewell wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > My mediacentre has just developed the most peculiar of problems... > > the onboard Ethernet device has disappeared. It was a PCI device > > (I forget what it was specifically) but lspci doesn't list it - not > > even an unknown device... nothing. I've been through the BIOS to > > see if it's somehow magically been disabled... but BIOS has nothing > > about it either. > > > > I'm gonna be chucking in a proper PCI card (I have a couple spare), > > but I just thought I'd throw this out there: any of you had devices > > just disappear before? > > > > Grant. :) > > > > Nope, I've had devices not being detected (USB sticks usually) but > not just disappearing. > > Have you tried looking behind the sofa? :-) I don't want to even think about what might be behind our sofa! > Seriously though, have you tried booting from a LiveCD to see if it's > detected there? It's a dual-boot XP/Ubuntu 9.10 machine (no Ethernet in either) and booting from Ubuntu 10.04 DVD throws up the same issue... no Ethernet. > Could be a motherboard fault maybe. So long as it's not indicative of more failures to come. Grant. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html