Re: Toshiba p35 laptop question (2)

[Jean Delvare]

Hi Jason, 

> Everyone,
>   I have a p35 Toshiba laptop running 2.6.12-rc1-mm3 and while I have
> managed to get most things working it seems that much of the hardware
> is not being recognized. For example:
> 
> root@jackass ~# lspci
> 0000:00:00.0 Host bridge:
>   ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5831 (rev 02)
> 0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge:
>   ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5838
> 0000:00:13.0 USB Controller:
>   ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4347 (rev 01)
> 0000:00:13.1 USB Controller:
>   ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4348 (rev 01)
> 0000:00:13.2 USB Controller:
>   ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4345 (rev 01)
> 0000:00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc ATI SMBus (rev 1a)
> 0000:00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4349
> 0000:00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 434c
> 0000:00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4342
> 0000:00:14.5 Multimedia audio controller:
>   ATI Technologies Inc IXP150 AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)
> 0000:00:14.6 Modem: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 434d (rev 01)
> 0000:01:05.0 VGA compatible controller:
>   ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5835
> 0000:02:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394):
>   VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller (rev 80)
> 0000:02:02.0 Ethernet controller:
>   Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)
> 0000:02:03.0 Ethernet controller:
>   Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
> 0000:02:04.0 Cardroot@jackass ~# Bus bridge:
>   ENE Technology Inc CB710 Cardbus Controller
> 0000:02:04.1 FLASH memory: ENE Technology Inc: Unknown device 0530
> 0000:02:04.2 0805: ENE Technology Inc: Unknown device 0550
> 0000:02:04.3 FLASH memory: ENE Technology Inc: Unknown device 0520
> 
> Thats quite a few "unknown devices" :).

All it means is that your PCI device base is older than your laptop. See
http://pciids.sourceforge.net/. There you can check the online database
and download an updated pci.ids file to copy to (typically) /usr/share.
After that lspci might know more.

Hope that helps,
-- 
Jean Delvare
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