From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 7 10:21:45 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 529CD37B405 for ; Fri, 7 Dec 2001 10:21:39 -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 KAA25934; Fri, 7 Dec 2001 10:21:36 -0800 Message-ID: <3C1108AE.5090900@owt.com> Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2001 10:21:34 -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: "Mikkel C. Simonsen" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [Question] SiS embedded ether intfc References: <3C11039B.7295@post5.tele.dk> 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 Mikkel C. Simonsen wrote: >>Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2001 19:35:54 -0800 >>From: Kent Stewart >>Subject: Re: [Question] SiS embedded ether intfc >> >>bad bob wrote: >> >> >>>Dumb question - is there anyone doing work to make the embedded SiS >>>ethernet interfaces on boards like the ECS K7S5A (athlon)? >>> >>J. Lemon gave me some patches back in October but they didn't work. The >>system still wouldn't recognize the PHY. >> > > Just a small note. The driver in Linux 2.2.20 also doesn't recognize the > PHY (the driver reports "unknown type" or simmilar), but the driver > still works... It returns an error code 6 and quits. > > Where does J. Lemon live BTW? If it's not too far away I could send him > a board for testing. No, idea where he lives. I just sent him an email at jlemon@FreeBSD.ORG Kent > >>He doesn't have access to a >>system running a SiS 745 chipset with an onboard SiS 900 NIC. >> >>I've been a lot more interested in getting UDMA-100 out of the SiS 5591. >>The SiS-745 based mbs are replacements for systems with existing Intel >>Pro 100+ or 3Com 509b's for NICs. The original systems also had existing >>sound cards. The 5591 only runs UDMA-2 right now. >> -- 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