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  1. Bug #223656
  2. Comment #7

Comment 7 for bug 223656

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Tim Gardner (timg-tpi) wrote : Re: RTL8102EL NIC chip cause Ubuntu 8.04 LiveCD boot up fail fail

Steve: I wanted the PCI IDs for the ethernet chipset.

MSI is described here: http://lwn.net/Articles/44139/

There are various flags you can pass at kernel boot time that allow you to control the PCI BIOS stuff. You can read about them in the kernel source code under Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt. Look for "pci=option". The interesting choices look like 'pci=bios' or 'pci=nobios'.