Matt,
> It looks like the 8201L PHY was first supported in 4.6-RELEASE, but the PR
> wasn't updated to reflect this.
>
> Guido, if possible, could you try with 4.6.2-RELEASE and see if your card
> gets detected?
I am running 'FreeBSD 4.6.2-RELEASE #0: Wed Aug 14 21:23:26 GMT 2002
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> > From: "Matthew Emmerton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Subject: Re: sis900: sis0 attach returned 6
> >
> > Guido,
> >
> > I did some more digging and it appears the bigger problem is that the
> > RTL8201 external PHY isn't supported
> From: "Matthew Emmerton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: sis900: sis0 attach returned 6
>
> Guido,
>
> I did some more digging and it appears the bigger problem is that the
> RTL8201 external PHY isn't supported (yet) in FreeBSD. Patches to
Guido,
I did some more digging and it appears the bigger problem is that the
RTL8201 external PHY isn't supported (yet) in FreeBSD. Patches to support
this PHY, along with reports of successful testing in numerous
configurations, are reported in PR kern/30836 (and kern/35691).
This PR has been s
Matt,
> What's probably happening is that we're not recognizing the PHY device that
> the sis900 uses, or the card itself is doing something wierd.
This desknote computrer came with an OEM version of ThisLinux. So I
installed that to find out how it handles the sis900 and all other
pci-devices
Matt,
> What's probably happening is that we're not recognizing the PHY device that
> the sis900 uses, or the card itself is doing something wierd.
I wondered what would happen under RedHat 7.3 so I installed it on a
spare partition. I hoped that this may be helpfull to pinpoint the
problem wi
Matt
> When you see the "boot:" prompt, hit and then type 'boot -v' and
> watch your system boot. Then send the list the detailed information about
> the sis0 driver (use the dmesg command once you've booted.)
...
pci0: (vendor=0x1039, dev=0x7012) at 2.7 irq 10
sis0: port 0xd400-0xd4ff mem
> I am trying to install 'FreeBSD 4.6.2-RELEASE #0: Wed Aug 14 21:23:26
> GMT 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC
> i386' on a new ECS iBuddy4 desknote with sis900 fast ethernet card.
>
> The sis900 is never attached. When I look at dmesg output, I see
> repeated blocks of output a
I am trying to install 'FreeBSD 4.6.2-RELEASE #0: Wed Aug 14 21:23:26
GMT 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC
i386' on a new ECS iBuddy4 desknote with sis900 fast ethernet card.
The sis900 is never attached. When I look at dmesg output, I see
repeated blocks of output about the
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Trying to install FreeBSD 4.6.2-RELEASE #0: Wed Aug 14 21:23:26 GMT 2002
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC i386 on a
new ECS iBuddy4 desknote with sis900 fast ethernet card.
The sis900 is never attached. When I look at dmesg output, I see
repea
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