From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Nov 20 6:26:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3AD137B401; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 06:26:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from tom.chem.tue.nl (tom.chem.tue.nl [131.155.80.7]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7E4F43E77; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 06:26:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from willy@tom.chem.tue.nl) Received: from tom.chem.tue.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tom.chem.tue.nl (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id gAKEQCvw082108; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 15:26:12 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from willy@tom.chem.tue.nl) Received: (from willy@localhost) by tom.chem.tue.nl (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gAKEQCbQ082107; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 15:26:12 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 15:26:12 +0100 From: Willy Offermans To: Wolfgang Zenker Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SiS 900 Ethernet card Message-ID: <20021120142612.GA81928@tom.chem.tue.nl> Reply-To: W.K.Offermans@TUe.nl References: <20021120133855.GC81680@tom.chem.tue.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dear FreeBSD friend, I'm not able to hack the code myself, I'm just a FreeBSD user (enthousiastic one) not a developer. So it would be nice if someone else could do it. On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 03:03:24PM +0100, Wolfgang Zenker wrote: > Hello, > > > sis0@pci0:4:0: class=0x020000 card=0xb7321019 chip=0x09001039 rev=0x91 hdr=0x00 > > vendor = 'Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS)' > > device = 'SiS900 Fast Ethernet/Home Networking Ctrlr' > > class = network > > subclass = ethernet > > that's apparently a SiS962 chip. This one is not (yet) supported in FreeBSD; > the MAC address is stored on an EEPROM that is shared with the IEEE 1394 > port and needs a special access protocol. If you want to hack on the driver > yourself, a search for "sis962" and "sis900.c" or "sis900.h" on google > should get you the information what was changed on the linux driver to > support this particular chip. I _might_ find the time next weekend to > cobble together a patch you could try. > > Wolfgang -- Met vriendelijke groeten, Willy ************************************* W.K. Offermans Eindhoven University of Technology Department of Chemical Engineering Laboratory of Catalysis (SKA) building ST-W 4.27, PO Box 513 5600 MB Eindhoven, Netherlands Tel: 0(031) 40 247 37 81 Fax: 0(031) 40 247 50 32 Home: 0(031) 45 544 49 99 e-mail: w.k.offermans@tue.nl http://www.catalysis.nl If you are bored playing with Bill Gates' toy, start to work with a real operating system Feel free, feel FreeBSD .... (www.FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message