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From: Jason Stewart <jstewart@rtl.org>
To: Marlowe Macavinta <marlowe@asti.dost.gov.ph>
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On Mon, 2003-05-12 at 22:34, Marlowe Macavinta wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> Good day!
> 
> My P4S533 has an onboard NIC, SiS 651 chipset 962L ethernet. Im using FreeBSD 4.7 and during device detection i can see in the bootstrap these messages:
> 
>     sis0: ethernet address ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
>     sis0: MII without any PHY!
> 
> I have read from several newsforum that FreeBSD doesnt support SiS 900s yet. anyone of you have a workaround for this prob? Please advise. 
> 
> Thank you!

Hi Marlowe,

I've successfully has the SiS900 working with 4.8-RELEASE. You might
want to try upgrading and telling us the results. There have been lots
of changes in this driver since 4.6

Jason