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Enabling dual function on device 0000
By admin | April 6, 2007
This past weekend I put together a linux based web server that I plan on running out of my home. As has happened many times before when doing hardware installs, I experienced some difficulties that I was not anticipating. Thanks to the many resources available on the Internet, I located the information I needed fairly quickly and was able to continue with the install.
Here is a summary of basically what went on…
Part of my server configuration involved the use of an Abit AB9 Pro motherboard. The board I received did not ship with the latest BIOS (AB9 Pro BIOS 1.6) and as a result I would get the following error while doing the install…
:PCI: JMB36X: Enabling dual function on device 0000:06:00.0 (along with a message for regions 0, 1, 2, and 3)
To resolve this I upgraded to the latest bios, which at that time was version 1 .6. After that I entered the bios and selected AHCI for my SATA drives (1.6 Terabytes!). I continued with my install (Fedora core 6.0) and all went well.
Once I had the system up and running I noticed I was getting no Internet connection even though the AB9 Pro has two gigabit LAN cards built in to the board. I shut the system down and loaded an old Linksys card I found lying around and then did a reboot. Linux discovered the card, accessed the Internet, and notified me there were about 168 updates to be made.
After all the updates were complete I shut the system down an removed the Linksys card from its PCI slot. I re-booted the system and Fedora discovered the 2 gigabit cards just fine.
My lessons: before building systems check for all the latest updates on bios and drivers; always have a computer close by that has access to the Internet in case you need to download something or do some research on software or hardware; it’s always a good idea to have some extra parts lying around such as an old floppy drive (in case you need it to load the driver’s), keyboard, mouse, and even an additional functioning hard drive.
I’m doing another install this weekend and I plan for that one to go more smoothly. 
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