Failure to detect PCI card

Anatolij Gustschin agust at denx.de
Tue Aug 6 04:25:59 EST 2013


On Mon, 5 Aug 2013 10:58:01 -0700
Peter LaDow <petela at gocougs.wsu.edu> wrote:

> I have a PCI card (a Netgear FA331, vendor:device 100b:0020) that is
> failing to be detected by our PPC platform.  This device works just
> fine in a PC, and other cards work just fine in the same PCI slot (we
> have an Intel 82540EM based card that works).
> 
> But for some reason, neither u-boot nor the kernel detect this card.
> Any ideas why this might be?

Maybe this card needs bigger delay to respond after PCI reset. You can
try to re-build U-Boot with defined CONFIG_PCI_BOOTDELAY. Use 1000
for CONFIG_PCI_BOOTDELAY in the first step and if detection works,
try to decrease this value.

HTH,

Anatolij


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