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From: Alexander <amour@amour.ath.cx>
To: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com>
Cc: "Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net>,
	Wolfgang Zenker <wolfgang@lyxys.ka.sub.org>, <dmagda@ee.ryerson.ca>,
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Subject: Re: SiS 900 Ethernet card
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Hello,
It is a laptop and the only thing I can open (without voiding the
guarantee) is the place where the memory sticks lie.
Anyway, I don't think this is the solution. Can't anyone port the linux
driver on bsd ? (It works great on linux, but I don't wan't to go on
linux)

thanks

On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Kent Stewart wrote:

>
>
> Jack L. Stone wrote:
> > At 02:04 AM 11.26.2002 +0100, Wolfgang Zenker wrote:
> >
> >>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
> >>>[..]
> >>>sis0 at pci0 dev 3 function 0 "SIS 900 10/100BaseTX" rev 0x90: irq 10
> >>
> >>that's apparently a nic integrated in the SiS 635 chipset.
> >>
> >>Wolfgang
> >>
> >
> >
> > At the very least, it should have a jumper on the MB to disable such a
> > feature.... you should go to the MB website if you don't have a manual with
> > the MB layout and jumpers. They should have the info there -- certainly
> > Tech support would be available.... I can't imagine an onboard NIC that
> > would not have an option to disable just as with audio or video....
>
> There should be an option in the bios called "Features Setup". In it
> you have a choice of "Onboard LAN" enabled or disabled.
>
> There are virtually no jumpers on SIS based motherboards.
>
> Kent
>
> --
> Kent Stewart
> Richland, WA
>
> http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html
>
>


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