Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 19:40:28 -0600 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SIS 900 Onboard NIC /w SIS 735 Chipset Motherboard. Message-ID: <15339.13324.768807.946850@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <20011108164512.A54891@ussenterprise.ufp.org> References: <2AACFCDB6086274CA42D44085EF1BAA229405F@msm-001.msg.stcorp.com> <15338.62167.240104.199613@guru.mired.org> <20011108164512.A54891@ussenterprise.ufp.org>
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Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org> types: > On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 03:02:15PM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: > > Could you provide a pointer to where you found it? An explanation of > > why users need to reprogram their MAC's - which is rather unusual - > > would help quite a bit. > There are several possibilities: None of which apply in this case. The posted instructions told the reader how to put the original MAC address back after it turned up all zeros, not how to change it to an arbitrary value. This was basically a bit of code to work around a bug in the firmware that caused the hardware to lose the MAC address. All of which has little to do with the real problem - getting the SiS 900 in the SiS 735 chipset working with FreeBSD, so I can put the fxp card and the PCI slot it's in to better use. The SiS is recognized, but you get the following at boot: sis0: <SiS 900 10/100BaseTX> port 0xd000-0xd0ff mem 0xcffdd000-0xcffddfff irq 14 at device 3.0 on pci0 sis0: Ethernet address: 00:00:00:00:00:00 sis0: MII without any PHY! device_probe_and_attach: sis0 attach returned 6 Apparently the PHY part of this chipset is either unsupported or unrecognized. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Q: How do you make the gods laugh? A: Tell them your plans. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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