SiS 900 onboard ethernet - SOLVED

[mdemers883]

Have u installed the apropiate drivers for your nic?

I have an onboard nic under nforce 2, and there are no md 9.2 drivers yet, so I had to compile them myself.

 

Look on the sis-website and look for drivers like .....src.rpm

I just checked here and I could find drivers for it...but they were only for windows :( I dunno, maybe there are linux drivers there and I just didn't notice them but I'm pretty sure that there were none.

 

 

Mark

[mdemers883]

I did some googling and found what looks like the driver HERE but it says it is for RedHat, will a Red Hat driver work with Mandrake? (sorry if that is a stupid question)

 

Also, I found

THIS as well, do you guys think that this is correct?

 

Thanks for any help that you can give.

 

 

Mark

[aRTee]

Have you tried drakconnect to the inside of your lan with a static address? I think you really have to try if it runs at all -- just to make sure you don't have a broken driver.

 

So just connect it to your lan (no inet/dsl/cable -- no dhcp) and see if it works.

 

Maybe it just doesn't get a hostname from the dhcp server, try changing that line.

(I know my server runs on dhcp but I set its hostname, not the cablemodem.)

 

[edit] just saw your last message above.

 

1) no the RH driver will NOT work

2) yes to build your own module (loadable) can work, but you already have one...

 

so back to the steps to try above:

- connect with some other pc's, no internet/dhcp, just static name and static addresses.

- set dhcp up but not the gethostname thingy from the dhcp server

 

hope this helps.

Edited December 30, 2003 by aRTee

[NeoXP]

Sorry for the late reply, but I would try this one

 

I did not download it myself but if you do, check it is something like .....src.rpm

 

good luck!

 

edit:

 

You have to login with username 'driver' en password 'all'

Edited January 6, 2004 by NeoXP

[mdemers883]

Sorry for the late reply, but I would try this one

 

I did not download it myself but if you do, check it is something like .....src.rpm

 

good luck!

 

edit:

 

You have to login with username 'driver' en password 'all'

thanks man :D I'll give that a try tonight when I'm at home

 

 

Mark

[NeoXP]

I have downloaded it in the meantime, I'm not sure but I think it is a driver that is suitable for all distro's.

 

Try following the instructions in the install file and please let us know if you succeeded.

 

Good luck!

[garymax]

The last time I installed a distro on a computer having the SIS900 chipset, it wasn't supported. Suse did not support it. Mandrake may not. I do know that Libranet does support this card. Unless you find the drivers, you may have to switch distros or do without the network...but how would you do that?

 

Check out Libranet if all else fails. Mandrake, however, is my favorite distro.

 

Cheers...

[zero0w]

I have sis900 working on both SiS 735 and 748 motherboard, although in 748 the boot up process always suggests unable to find the eth0 but it is able to connect online afterwards.

[Appleman1234]

Dear all,

I had the same problem but mine just hanged and was using dchp to boot, when changed to static it worked, for your problem try getting rid of the MII line in ifconfigeth0 file or disabling network hotplugging.

 

Appleman 1234 :D

 

Hope this helps

[Guest zbeckerd]

Whenever I have had a ethernet problem in drake turning off apic always fixed it. Just a thought.

[streeter]

Hi

Don't start messing with other drivers yet... (I use the SIS900 driver on mdk9.1 and 10.0)

 

Your driver is loading (because you get output from ifconfig eth0), you are just not getting an IP address.

 

Do you NEED a dynamic address? If this is your own internal private network, use static addresses.

Several people have suggested you try a static address - have you yet?

 

To test your card/driver:

 

As root:

# mv /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0.old

 

# ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.2 up

 

# ifconfig eth0

 

You should then get an ip address (192.168.0.2) in the output.

 

If this works, there's nothing wrong with your card/driver.

 

It is normal for a card to 'hang' foir 30 seconds or so when looking for a dynamic address and it cannot find one.

 

Let us know how you get on...

 

Chris

[somedude]

Does this work if you?

ifup eth0

 

If so, add to rc.local

ifdown eth0 ifup eth0

Edited June 2, 2004 by somedude

[Guest JustinLawrence]

I had the same problem, then tried the simple solution on (http://www.thelinuxpimp.com/main/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=562). I have listed the solution below, in case that page should go missing:

 

"Simply changing the Plug&Play OS setting inside of your BIOS to no. I was receiving the above error on an SiS900 network card built into the motherboard until I turned off the Plug&Play OS setting and then everything worked perfectly. "

 

Now everything's working *great*!!!

 

Cheers

 

Justin Lawrence

www.m2north.com

www.irjsoftware.com

[jdion81]

I had a similar issue with my ECS K7s5a board, which has an sis 900 built on. It would not work correctly until I disabled acpi

Edited June 14, 2004 by jdion81

[mdemers883]

Well, I see some ppl have repsonded to this thread since I've read it last :P Well, some updates on what I've been up to. I've been using SuSE 9.0 and 9.1 since and it automatically detects my sis900 and my connection works right away. I liked suse, but I thought it was lacking in rpms. I've been toying with fedora core3 test2 the past couple of days...I'm not quite sure if I like it or not yet, lol. I had briefly installed mandrake 10.0 but my sis900 still didn't work :( ...but, I'm debating on installing it tonight with the plug and play OS turned OFF and disabling the acpi. Since my fedora install is fresh it's not like I'd be losing anything important.