Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 15:05:28 -0400 (EDT) From: alexander v p <alex@big-blue.net> To: Alexander <amour@amour.ath.cx> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SIS900 NIC [on board], pay some attention, please ! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0304241504070.52934-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20030424203000.A55256-100000@amour.ath.cx>
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Hi, i had the same problem "MII without any PHY" on ASUS motherboard and for the time i used additional card ( 3com). anyway, after CVSUP to 4.8 that card is working. did u try to cvsup to latest 4.X code ? hth, alex On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, Alexander wrote: > 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. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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