From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 25 12:25:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20A2A37B41B for ; Sun, 25 Nov 2001 12:25:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from owt.com (owt-207-41-94-232.owt.com [207.41.94.232]) by rutger.owt.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA08742; Sun, 25 Nov 2001 12:25:33 -0800 Message-ID: <3C0153B9.7020004@owt.com> Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 12:25:29 -0800 From: Kent Stewart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011019 Netscape6/6.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jacks@sage-american.com Cc: bad bob , FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: activating sis900 ether interface ECS K7S5A Mobo References: <3C013CE8.607CB57F@bellatlantic.net> <3.0.5.32.20011125133536.0102e200@mail.sage-american.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG jacks@sage-american.com wrote: > Then look at the /var/log/messages for the recent boot up so you have more > time to study what the device is being labeled as... perhaps you haven't > made the dev yet in /dev It doesn't work. More code is needed to recognize the SiS900 on SiS-745 chipset motherboards. When you add sis to the kernel. It still doesn't recognize the PHY. You end up with messages like the following in your dmesg sis0: port 0xb800-0xb8ff mem 0xcffcd000-0xcffcdfff irq 5 at device 3.0 on pci0 sis0: Ethernet address: 00:00:00:00:00:00 sis0: MII without any PHY! device_probe_and_attach: sis0 attach returned 6 Kent > > At 02:34 PM 11.25.2001 -0500, bad bob wrote: > >>to follow up my own post with - perhaps - more info: >>using FreeBSD 4.3, april 2001 CDs. >>upon reinstall, with the bootup I see the sis0 interface in the >>boot messages that display and roll by quickly. I see the ethernet >>interface address (mac address) but when I do an ifconfig -a, >>i do not see the sis0 listed. >>Still looking for hints >>thanks >>bob >> >> >>bad bob wrote: >> >>>I have read the docs, scanned the archives, and find that the sis0 >>>interface (as I think the ECS K7S5A mobo implements it) is part of >>>the standard generic kernel. I can not seem to find it, can't seem >>>to activate it, just plain confused. >>>thanks for any help or pointers. >>>bob >>> >>To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >>with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >> >> >> > > Best regards, > Jack L. Stone, > Server Admin > > Sage-American > http://www.sage-american.com > jacks@sage-american.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > . > > -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message