From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Nov 25 14:39:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DEC737B401; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 14:39:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5340343E9C; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 14:39:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) 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 OAA23827; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 14:38:48 -0800 Message-ID: <3DE2A677.8020709@owt.com> Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 14:38:47 -0800 From: Kent Stewart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, es-mx MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alexander Cc: dmagda@ee.ryerson.ca, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, FreeBSD-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, FreeBSD-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SiS 900 Ethernet card References: <20021125220040.B1409-100000@amour.ath.cx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Alexander wrote: > The next thing that comes is the Ethernet Card. It is on board and from > the dmesg output You see what happens. The card is working properly on > Windows XP, RedHat Linux (OpenBSD have the same problems except for the > kernel failure). > > I've tried removing the driver from the kernel so that at least I can > boot and install FreeBSD and then probably go on PCMCIA but the kernel > failed again saying that the device is unknown (huh !). > > Please, if someone knows a fix or thinks that can help, write me. > I'm ready to test patches and provide more information. > A temporary solution as far as the kernel is concerned is to disable the on-board SiS-900 in the bios. Get your boot problem stable. Then, you can fix the kernel and try things. I had problems with the SiS-900 on my SiS-735 based motherboard. I had a number of Intel 100's or 3Coms and adding one of them worked just fine. You need to be able to cvsup and in my case I am dependant on the NIC that is connected to my ADSL modem. FWIW, an FTP between 2 machines with SiS-900's gives me my fastest transfer rates. The 3Com is the slowest. The 3Com's are older because I liked the idea of the onboard memory being 2x larger in the Intels. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message