Re: initial setup for newbies

> - lspci:
>
> 0000:00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 03ea (rev a1)
> 0000:00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 03e0 (rev a2)
> 0000:00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 03eb (rev a2)
> 0000:00:01.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 03f5 (rev a2)
> 0000:00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 03f1
> (rev a3)
> 0000:00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 03f2
> (rev a3)
> 0000:00:04.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 03f3 (rev a1)
> 0000:00:05.0 0403: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 03f0 (rev a2)
> 0000:00:06.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 03ec (rev a2)
> 0000:00:07.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 03ef (rev a2)
> 0000:00:08.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 03f6 (rev a2)
> 0000:00:08.1 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 03f6 (rev a2)
> 0000:00:09.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 03e8 (rev a2)
> 0000:00:0b.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 03e9 (rev a2)
> 0000:00:0c.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 03e9 (rev a2)
> 0000:00:0d.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown
> device 03d0 (rev a2)
> 0000:01:06.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6105
> [Rhine-III] (rev 8b)

The only thing not unknown is the Ethernet card.  What's up with that?
 Do you have modules installed in /lib/modules for the OpenSSI kernel
(eg /lib/modules/2.6.14-ssi-686-smp where "2.6.14-ssi-686-smp" matches
the name of the initrd and vmlinuz in /boot ) ?

No, that probably isn't it.  I think the nVidia chipsets are just way too new.

Interesting bits of dmesg would be further down.  Feel free to send
the full dmesg to me directly.

I discovered that it's harder than I would have guessed to figure out
if Linux supports any given PCI device by ID.  NetBSD hardcodes those
in .h files.  I couldn't establish that supported devices on my own
system were supported from looking at the code.  *sigh*  So trying the
older machine (or else virtual hardware) is your best bet.

Cheers,
-scott

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