From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Nov 25 15:53:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFC4737B401; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 15:53:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from amour.ath.cx (core100-s222.dialo.tiscali.de [62.246.100.222]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F92443EA9; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 15:53:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from amour@amour.ath.cx) Received: from amour.ath.cx (amour@localhost.ath.cx [127.0.0.1]) by amour.ath.cx (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gAPNr1md000783; Tue, 26 Nov 2002 00:53:01 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from amour@amour.ath.cx) Received: from localhost (amour@localhost) by amour.ath.cx (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) with ESMTP id gAPNqn7H000774; Tue, 26 Nov 2002 00:52:59 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 00:52:49 +0100 (CET) From: Alexander To: Kent Stewart Cc: dmagda@ee.ryerson.ca, , , Subject: Re: SiS 900 Ethernet card In-Reply-To: <3DE2A677.8020709@owt.com> Message-ID: <20021126004445.I657-100000@amour.ath.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, The problem is that my bios have very few features and I can't disable the Network Card. I'm not sure what is the mainboard, it is sis but I don't know which model. Maybe this dmesg output from OpenBSD may help someone: cpu0: Intel Pentium 4 ("GenuineIntel" 686-class) 2.20 GHz cpu0: FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SYS,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SIMD real mem = 469282816 (458284K) avail mem = 429006848 (418952K) using 4278 buffers containing 23568384 bytes (23016K) of memory mainbus0 (root) bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+(8d) BIOS, data 07/25/02, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xe87c0 apm0 at bios0: Power Management spec V1.2 apm0: AC on, battery charge unknown pcibios0 at bios0: rev. 2.1 @ 0xe6000/0x691 pcibios0: PCI IRQ Routing Table rev. 1.0 @ 0xfe840/176 (9 entries) pcibios0: PCI Interrupt Router at 000:02:0 ("SIS 85C503 ISA" rev 0x00) pcibios0: PCI bus #2 is the last bus bios0: ROM list: 0xc0000/0xc000 0xe0000/0x1800! 0xe5000/0x1000! 0xea000/0x5000! pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (no bios) pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 vendor "SIS", unknown product 0x650 rev 0x01 ppb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 "SIS 86C201 Host-AGP" rev 0x00 pci1 at ppb0 bus 1 vga1 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 vendor "SIS", unknown product 0x6325 rev 0x00: aperture at 0x90000000, size 0x400000 wsdisplay0 at vga1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation) wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation) pcib0 at pci0 dev 2 function 0 "SIS 85C503 ISA" rev 0x00 ohci0 at pci0 dev 2 function 2 "SIS 5597/5598 USB" rev 0x07: irq 11, OHCI version 1.0, legacy support ohci0: SMM does not respond, resetting usb0 at ohci0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0 at usb0 uhub0: vendor 0x0000 OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub0: 3 ports with 3 removable, self powered ohci1 at pci0 dev 2 function 3 "SIS 5597/5598 USB" rev 0x07: irq 11, OHCI version 1.0, legacy support usb1 at ohci1: USB revision 1.0 uhub1 at usb1 uhub1: vendor 0x0000 OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub1: 3 ports with 3 removable, self powered pciide0 at pci0 dev 2 function 5 "SIS 5513 EIDE" rev 0xd0: DMA, channel 0 wired to compatibility, channel 1 wired to compatibility wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA, 38154MB, 16383 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 78140160 sectors wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2 atapiscsi0 at pciide0 channel 1 drive 0 scsibus0 at atapiscsi0: 2 targets cd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: SCSI0 5/cdrom removable cd0(pciide0:1:0): using PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2 vendor "SIS", unknown product 0x7013 (class communications, subclass modem, rev 0xa0) at pci0 dev 2 function 6 not configured vendor "SIS2, unknown product 0x7012 (class multimedia, subclass audio, rev 0xa0) at pci0 dev 2 function 7 not configured sis0 at pci0 dev 3 function 0 "SIS 900 10/100BaseTX" rev 0x90: irq 10 address 00:00:00:00:00:00 cbb0 at pci0 dev 9 function 0 "Texas Instruments PCI1410 PCI-CardBus" rev 0x02: irq 10 vendor "NEC", unknown product 0xce (class serial bus, subclass Firewire, rev 0x01) at pci0 dev 11 function 0 not configured isa0 at pcib0 isadma0 at isa0 pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5 pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot) pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0 pms0 at pckbc0 (aux slot) pckbc0: using irq 12 for aux slot wsmouse0 at pms0 mux 0 pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61 midi0 at pcppi0: sysbeep0 at pcppi0 lpt0 at isa0 port 0x378/4 irq7 npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/15: using exception 16 cardslot0 at cbb0 slot 0 flags 0 cardbus0 at cardslot0: bus 2 device 0 cacheline 0x8, lattimer 0x40 pcmcia0 at cardslot0 biomask cc0 netmask cc0 ttymask dc82 pctr: user-level cycle counter enabled dkcsum: wd0 matched BIOS disk 80 root on wd0a rootdev=0x0 rrootdev=0x300 rawdev=0x302 syncing disks... OpenBSD 3.2 (AMOUR) #2: Tue Nov 19 17:21:00 CET 2002 end of dmesg output; ifconfig -m sis0: sis0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 address: 00:00:00:00:00:00 media: Ethernet none (none) supported media: media none inet 192.168.1.2 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 inet6 fe80::7c41:74f5:5650:398d%sis0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 end of ifconfig output; On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Kent Stewart wrote: > > > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message