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Date:      12 Jun 2002 23:26:06 -0700
From:      Jeff Seeman <danger@e-lated.org>
To:        "Patrick O'Reilly" <peri@perimeter.co.za>
Cc:        FUJITA Kazutoshi <fujita@soum.co.jp>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: SiS900 attach failed
Message-ID:  <1023949573.293.1.camel@hacx.e-lated.org>
In-Reply-To: <200206130745.11734@.perimeter.co.za>
References:  <20020612.033500.74692669.fujita@soum.co.jp>  <200206130745.11734@.perimeter.co.za>

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Just for giggles I thought I would also past a snippet from dmesg 

sis0: <SiS 900 10/100BaseTX> port 0xb000-0xb0ff mem
0xf5800000-0xf5800fff irq 9 at device 3.0 on pci0
sis0: Ethernet address: 00:e0:18:74:af:5c
sis0: MII without any PHY!
device_probe_and_attach: sis0 attach returned 6


On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 22:54, Patrick O'Reilly wrote:
> On Tue 11 Jun 02 20:35, FUJITA Kazutoshi wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I got SiS chipset based PC recently, and install 4-STABLE.
> >
> > But my SiS900 does not work with GENERIC kernel.
> >
> > sis0: <SiS 900 10/100BaseTX> port 0xd400-0xd4ff mem
> > 0xdfff9000-0xdfff9fff irq 11 at device 3.0 on pci0 sis0: Ethernet
> > address: 00:07:95:c0:de:e2
> > sis0: MII without any PHY!
> > device_probe_and_attach: sis0 attach returned 6
> >
> >
> > Here is 'pciconf -lv' output.
> >
> > none0@pci0:3:0: class=0x020000 card=0x09001039 chip=0x09001039
> > rev=0x90 hdr=0x00 vendor   = 'Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS)'
> >     device   = 'SiS900 Fast Ethernet/Home Networking Ctrlr'
> >     class    = network
> >     subclass = ethernet
> >
> 
> Aha - looks familiar!  I posted the following question on Saturday:
> 
> > I have been asked to install FreeBSD on a customer's machine, and
> > have run into a problem with the NIC.  Here are a few lines extracted
> > from dmesg:
> >
> > ---
> > dc0: <Davicom DM9102A 10/100 BaseTX> at device 15.0 on pci0
> > dc0: couldn't map port/memory
> > device_probe_and_attach: dc0 attach returned 6
> > ---
> >
> > I am installing 4.5 RELEASE from CD.  The first indication of a
> > problem was that sysinstall did not list the NIC along with other
> > network devices during the installation.  Then, once the OS was
> > loaded, I rebooted, and no NIC appears when using ifconfig -a .
> >
> > Does anyone know if this can be fixed, or is it perhaps a dud card?
> >
> > PS: LINT indicates that the dc driver supports Davicom DM9101 and
> > DM9102 cards.  I don't know if the DM9102A is different enough to
> > perhaps cause this error. ?!?
> 
> In my case the mother board is an ASUS A37VL133-VM.  I have 
> subsequently tried an SMC card only to experience the same problem (it 
> also emulates the Intel/DEC chip and hence uses the 'dc' driver).  I 
> found an old 10meg card with a Realtek chip emulating an NE2000, and 
> that works OK (but I don't want to install a 10meg card in a new PC!)
> 
> I also compared the code for the 'dc' driver from 4.5-RELEASE to -p5, 
> and as far as I can tell there has not been any change there.
> 
> I eagerly await some news here.
> 
> Regards,
> Patrick.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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