boot eth0 failed sis900
 

Hello,
I can not get my nic started. Any help would be appreciated.

Here is what I'm using:
Mother board:
PCchips M810LMR v7.1 Athlon with SIS900 on board.
Distro:
Redhat 7.0

Boot log Error Messages:
sis900.c:v1.06.03 12-23-99
eth0:error eeprom read:0
ifup: Delaying eth0 initialization
network: Bringing up interface eth0 failed
SIOCADDRT: network is unreachable
network: bringing up interface lo succeeded
insmod /lib/modules/2.2.16-22/sis900.o: init_module:device or resource busy
insmod /lib/modules/2.2.16-22/sis900.o: init_module:insmod eth0 failed

Other info:
cat /proc/pci
bus 0, devcel 1, function 1:
ethernet controller: sis unknown device (rev 130)
vendor id=1039 device id=900
medium devcel. fast back-to-back capable. irq 11. master capable
latency=64 min gnt=52. maxlat=11.
i/o at 0xd400 [0xd401]
non-prefetchable 32bit mamory at 0xcfff7000

uname -a
dest. gateway genmask interface
127.0.0.1 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 lo

ifup eth0
delaying eth0 initialization

ifconfig eth0 up
eth0: unknown interface: no such device

Thanks for reading and considering this problem.
Hope to be, Windows Free!
Zip

Redhat 7.0? That's likely to be the problem. Why not at least 7.3? Better shot at seeing the hardware is RH 9 if you want to stay with RH.

Cheers--
Charles

Hi Charles,
Upgrading is a big project with no guarantee. I was hoping I could just upgrade a config file or driver first.
Thanks for the advice.
Zip

Sorry to say that Redhat 7.0 most probably is your problem... as to why i would also like to know (i'm thinking drivers). Redhat 9 will almost definitely work without hitch.

i have two identical PC's, one running redhat 9 (that works fine with the onboard sis900), the other running 7.1 (for software backward compatibility). the 7.1 machine has exactly the problem you described. if you have since found a way to get around this, i would love to hear about it....