To me this means your ethernet controller is working fine. An lsmod should show that sis900 is running.
Let's go back a bit. When you installed 8.0 did you have an ethernet cable plugged into your machine (using the onboard ethernet plug and not the PCI card) and did you have a running network available? For example -- was there a gateway device that could be pinged at install time?
If so, the anaconda installer should have detected your networking, loaded the right driver for the ethernet controller, and brought you to a screen asking for the IP address of the machine and IP addresses representing the gateway IP, and the DNS server IP. Did this happen? My guess is you didn't have the machine connected to your network. So the installer skipped the network setup.
Also, were you asked to select a firewall security level? It is very possible that you turned on the default firewall and it is blocking ethernet packets, making you think the hardware is not working.
What does running 'ifconfig' show you? Do you see output for eth0 and/or eth1?
PS -- when you post to this list, can you do that in plain text.
Thanks
Robert L. Cochran
-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher A. Williams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 2:44 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: 8.0 Problems - SIS900 series controller will not load.
OK - here's the output of the lspci -v -v command regarding the SIS-900 series (963) Ethernet controller:
00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 10/100 Ethernet (rev 91)
Subsystem: Asustek Computer, Inc.: Unknown device 80a7
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 32 (13000ns min, 2750ns max)
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 9
Region 0: I/O ports at 9800 [size=256]
Region 1: Memory at e4000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Expansion ROM at ef6c0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0+,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold+)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
I'm not sure what the Unknown Device 80a7 means, but this seems to be consistent with the errors I get at startup when trying to load this device. Manually setting the IRQ did not help. Insmod reports back roughly the same error as I recall. Could this be where the problem is?
Cheers,
Chris
On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 11:50, R P Herrold wrote:
On 2 Oct 2002, Christopher A. Williams wrote:
> I found the driver. Looks like there's been a SIS900 compatible driver
> since kernel 2.4.15. dmesg is giving hints about IRQs and I/O addresses.
> Nothing on CMOS gives a hint about what these could be. Looks like if I
> could figure out the correct IRQ/DMA/IO Address, the thing might have a
> shot a working. Suggestions from anyone with a SIS Ethernet controller?
All the SIS-900's I have owned have been onboard PCI bus
devices, and so the information should be readily available
for the kernel to discern without explicit settings. A
Bugzilla with a lspci -v -v may be necessary to get
the bios strings to key on into the mainline distribution.
-- Russ herrold
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