From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 24 12:05:52 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8BA737B401; Thu, 24 Apr 2003 12:05:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from amour.ath.cx (p213.54.210.107.tisdip.tiscali.de [213.54.210.107]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5E5D43FDF; Thu, 24 Apr 2003 12:05:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from amour@amour.ath.cx) Received: from amour.ath.cx (amour@localhost.ath.cx [127.0.0.1]) by amour.ath.cx (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h3OJ5mtf056594; Thu, 24 Apr 2003 21:05:48 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from amour@amour.ath.cx) Received: from localhost (amour@localhost) by amour.ath.cx (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) with ESMTP id h3OJ5jf8056591; Thu, 24 Apr 2003 21:05:48 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 21:05:45 +0200 (CEST) From: Alexander To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org, , , , , Message-ID: <20030424203000.A55256-100000@amour.ath.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: SIS900 NIC [on board], pay some attention, please ! X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 19:05:53 -0000 Hello there ! I was writing to freebsd lists some time ago, again asking for some help about SIS900 NIC. Then some other people also complained that the sis900 driver that comes with FreeBSD 4.x and FreeBSD-CURRENT (later 5.0) doesn't actually work at all. So some patches were released and also the drivers in -STABLE and -CURRENT were also updated. And guess what, it is still not working on my laptop ! I really waited long, looked around for some other patches or updates but ... nothing ! There was also some people, whose SIS900 NICs were also not working, mailed me asking if I got my NIC working. But the answer was, and is "NO" I'm not mailing the list(s) to tell my story, but to ask someone who is interested in auditing the problem and fixing the driver, I'm ready to give my whole time for the cause ... The problem consists of the "MII without any PHY" while probing for the SIS900 NIC and then I simply get kernel panic and can't boot any further. The only advantage of all the updatings of the sis900 driver was that now the it finds the nic's mac, not very helpfull but it's still something. I've described most of the problem at the very nice freebsd hardware forum: www.freebsdforums.org/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=8328 Thanks, for at least reading the email :) P.S. If You reply to this email, please include my email address while responding.