On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 01:45:04PM +0530, Shakthi Kannan wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks for your reply Greg, > > On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 20:44:36 -0800, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > PCI X and PCI Express are very different things. Which one do you want? > > I thought PCIX and PCI-Express were the same. No. > I was _not_ referring to PCIE (PCI Extreme). Correct me if I am wrong. PCI-E is PCI Express. Please see the specs on the PCI Sig web site for the different details. > Testing is for a PCI - Express card on a PCI-Express (Intel) > motherboard on the PCI-Express slot. Running Red Hat WS with 2.4.19 > kernel. 2.4.19 is years old. It does not have PCI Express support, but as you have found out, it will support the basic pci functions of that device. > "cat /proc/pci" displays the PCI - Express card detected on > the PCI - Express slot. I only have PCI support in the 2.4.19 kernel. > So, was wondering if there were any PCI-Express specific options in > the recent kernels. 2.6 has support for PCI Express, no 2.4 kernel does. Good luck, greg k-h -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
