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Date:      Wed, 20 Nov 2002 13:46:12 +0100 (CET)
From:      Alexander <amour@amour.ath.cx>
To:        Willy Offermans <W.K.Offermans@TUe.nl>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, <FreeBSD-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>, <FreeBSD-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: SiS 900 Ethernet card
Message-ID:  <20021120134408.P9962-100000@amour.ath.cx>
In-Reply-To: <20021120124054.GA79330@tom.chem.tue.nl>

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I just to say that I have similar problem and I also have SiS900 on my
Laptop but I only receive MII without any PHY and the system reboots
before even booted !
The mac is 00:00:00:00:00:00

It seems that the driver for this network card is not working at all !

P.S. Thanks for the patches, I'll try them

On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Willy Offermans wrote:

> Dear FreeBSD friends,
>
> In an email before I reported about a problem with the SiS 900 ethernetca=
rd:
>
> > Dear FreeBSD friends,
> >
> > I have bought a nice laptop computer (Gericom Masterpiece 25340 XL).
> > It has an ethernet card inside, based on SiS 900 chip.
> > During boot, FreeBSD can detect the card, but cannot assign an MAC
> > address, nor initializing the card. I receive following messages:
> >
> > ....
> > sis0: <SiS 900 10/100BaseTX> port 0xf800-0xf8ff mem 0xe8005000-0xe8005f=
ff irq 4 at device 4.0 on pci0
> > sis0: Ethernet address: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
> > sis0: MII without any PHY!
> > device_probe_and_attach: sis0 attach returned 6
> > ....
> >
> > Does anybody know to solve this problem?
>
> On that I received two different patches, which could solve the problem. =
I have attached them to this email:
> sis.diff from Luoqi Chen and if_sis.patch from Jeff Seeman.
>
> if_sis.patch didn't do the job. The message during boot didn't change and=
 moreover I was not able to use the ethernet device.
>
> sis.diff did a better a job, but it solved the problem partly. Have a loo=
k to the output during boot:
>
> ...
> sis0: <SiS 900 10/100BaseTX> port 0xf800-0xf8ff mem 0xe8005000-0xe8005fff=
 irq 5 at device 4.0 on pci0
> sis0: Ethernet address: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
> miibus0: <MII bus> on sis0
> ukphy0: <Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface> on miibus0
> ukphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
> pcic0: <YENTA PCI-CardBus Bridge> irq 11 at device 10.0 on pci0
> pcic0: PCI Memory allocated: 0x88000000
> ...
>
> Still the system is not able to retrieve the MAC address from the etherne=
tcard.
>
> Of course I could assign a MAC address manually and work around the probl=
em (ifconfig sis0 lladdr xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx), but still it would be nice to =
have a driver which does a proper job.
>
> Is a better patch available?
>
>
> --
> Met vriendelijke groeten,
> With kind regards,
> Mit freundlichen Gr=FC=DFen,
>
> Willy
>
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