sure thing, I'm gonna do that in the Laptop forum, for all my fellow laptop linux users,

cheers!

Okay, I'm back. So I ran the cat /proc/pci and found my ethernet device information.

Ethernet controller is listed on IRQ3 and the I/O is 8800-88ff

I then ran the less /proc/interrupts and less /proc/ioports commands. The ioports command showed the correct I/O information of 8800-88ff, but when I ran the interrupts command there is nothing listed for IRQ3 and the ethernet device is not listed anywhere in the IRQ list.

I also looked in /etc/modules.conf and I already have the line alias eth0 sis900, sis900 being the name of the module I need I guess.

Is the issue here have to do with the fact that the interrupt commands do not match? can I adjust it manually? what next?

Post the full and exact entry that you found in /proc/pci for the card.


Odd memory space for an Ethernet card to end up in, but it might be OK.


IRQs 3-7 are reserved for serial ports 1/2, parallel port 2, floppy drive, and parallel port 1 respectively. You may not see some or all of these ports listed in /proc/ioports. Your Ethernet controller shouldn't be on IRQ 3; turn off Plug-N-Play OS support in your BIOS if possible and see if that helps. Also, post the full results of "cat /proc/interrupts".

Perhaps, although your system could be mis-identifying the NIC (that is, it isn't really an SiS chipset). If that's the case, loading the sis900 module will cause problems. Posting the info I asked for in my first point (cat /proc/pci) will tell us for sure.

With older ISA cards you could manually assign IRQs and I/O addesses, but with modern cards you can't really.

cat /proc/pci;

PCI device found:
Bus 0, device , function 0:
Host bridge: PCI device 1039:0651 [SIS](rev2)
.
Master capable. Latency=32
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe8000000 (oxebffffff)

Bus 0, device 1, function 0
PCI bridge: SIS 5591/5529 AGP (rev0)
Master capable. No bursts. Min Gnt=8

Bus 0, device 2, function 0
ISA bridge: PCI device 1039:0962 [SIS](rev37)

Bus 0, device 2, function 5
IDE interface: SIS 5513 [IDE](rev0)
IRQ 11
Master capable Latency=128
I/O at oxa400 [oxa40f]

Bus 0, device 2, function 7
Multimedia audio controller: [SIS]Sis 7012 PCI
audio accelerator (rev160)
IRQ 10
Master capable Latency=32 Min Gnt:52 Max Lat=11
I/O at 0x9400 [0x94ff]
I/O at 0x9000 [0x907f]

Bus 0, device 3, function 0
USB controller: SIS 7001 (rev15)
IRQ 5
Master capable Latency=32 Max Lat=80
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe7000000 (0xe7000fff)

Bus 0, device 3, function 1
USB controller: SIS 7001 (#2) (rev15)
IRQ 9
Master capable Latency=32 Max Lat=80
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe6800000 (0xe7000fff)

Bus 0, device 3, function 3
USB controller: PCI device 1039:7002 (SIS) (rev0)
IRQ 9
Master capable Latency=32 Max Lat=80
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe6000000 (0xe6000fff)

Bus 0, device 4, function 0
Ethernet controller: [SIS] Sis900 10/100 Ethernet (rev145)
IRQ 3
Master capable Latency=32 Min Gnt=52 Max Lat=11
I/O at 0x8800 [0x88ff]
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe5800000 (0xe5800fff)

Bus 1, device 0, function 0
VGA compatible controller: PCI device 1039:6325 SIS (rev0)
IRQ 11
Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xf0000000 (0xf7ffffff)
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe7800000 (0xe781ffff)
I/O at 0xd800 [0xd87f]



cat /proc/interrupts;

CPU 0
0 165685 XT-PIC timer
1 284 XT-PIC keyboard
2 0 XT-PIC cascade
5 0 XT-PIC usb-ohci
8 1 XT-PIC rtc
9 57 XT-PIC usb-ohci, echi-hcd
10 0 XT-PIC sis7012
12 44005 XT-PIC PS/2 mouse
14 23983 XT-PIC ide 0
15 18956 XT-PIC ide 1
NMI: 0
ERR: 0

Natrone,

Have you tried running netconfig? Type this in root:

/usr/sbin/netconfig

It should display 4 lines to setup your NIC card. From your /proc/pci display it seems that your NIC card is recognized by Redhat but you just didn't configure it. That's all

-twantrd

I typed in usr/sbin/netconfig and I got;

No such file or directory

Hi Natrone,

You need to type in /usr/sbin/netconfig. I think you forgot the "/". Anyhow, to verify type this to find out the path of where netconfig lives:

"whereis netconfig" (w/o quotes of course)

and then it will display the path. Type in that path at your terminal screen. My netconfig could live in a different directory path than yours.

-twantrd

ok so I ran /usr/sbin/netconfig

It pulled up a configuration screen where I chose dhcp then clicked ok, it then returned to the terminal.

I tried again to activate eth0

unsuccessful once again

ok so you chose dhcp setting for your NIC card. Therefore after typing "ifconfig" it still only shows the loopback stats right? Are you sure your router is set to DHCP as well? Try specifying an IP and see if the same problem occurs. Of course if you do, remember to make sure that all your settings are correct.

-twantrd