Hi!

When I rebooted my PC, my network card suddenly disappeared :


# lspci
0000:03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd.: Unknown device 4362 (rev 15)

(use to return that)
This worked fine but now :

# lspci

returns nothing about Ethernet controller.

My network card is built in on my MSI 915 P motherboard. I started to play with BIOS PCI setup but nothing came out.

Should I go to buy a new network card or is there something else to try?

(By the way, windows crashes while starting now...)

Thanks!

Hmmmm have you updated something lately? Your kernel or your BIOS as example? If the card just "disapears" it might be an hardware failure, especially if windoze crashes when booting now. Do you see a led or something?

I did not touch my kernel or my BIOS.

Last thing I did was gently using googleearth with windows (coulnt make it work with wine). I reboot to go back to my Debian and there is no network. lspci gives nothing. I try windows, it crashes. Restauring windows, crashes. Reinstalling, crashes! Linux works fine, I just have no network

My MSI 915P Combo is only 4 moths old, I will see what garantee I have...

When I plug my PC to my router, a del switches on the back of the motherboard. Nothing is explains about that in the doc.

It really sound like a dead hardware to me. Windoze is really frisky about dead hardware, I doubt you will be able use windoze on that computer anymore unless you can disable/unplug the network card. Or try to disable it in windoze booting fail-mode.

Anyways... you may consider to buy a new network card (if you garantee is over, otherwise, send this back!), but don't buy anything expensive. I wouldn't trust this computer much anymore, you better buy a cheap $15 USD dlink card in case it decides to die tomorow.

My God, what a crapy BIOS!

I contacted MSI as my motherboard was still under warranty. They told me to flash the BIOS to the latest version. I did it. Windows started propely but still did not detect the network controller (linux neither). I reset all default BIOS config. Reboot, reset BIOS reboot reset... and so on.... OK, I give up... Let s reboot to linux burn some usefull things on CD and send them this ****ing motherboard. OMG, the network is back!

That s a good news but I dont trust MSI anymore... This motherboard is a crap!!!