On 11/22/05, James Wilkinson <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: .. > You could look in /proc/pci and trying to work out each of the devices > are. You'd see PCI IDs looking something like 8086:1102. 8086 is the > company code (in this case Intel), and 1102 the device ID. You can look > them up at http://pci-ids.ucw.cz/iii/ > > Or, on a boot CD, you could use lspci, which should give human-readable > values. > > It's also worth looking at dmesg, /var/log/dmesg, or messages to see if > either of them are mentioned. > > Hope this helps, > > James. .. It was a very simple and probably common mistake, easily fixed. The cards weren't properly inserted. I've got the D-Link NIC working fine and expect to bring the 3com NIC online shortly :) Thanks for the help and advice, it really got me thinking, -Thufir