sis900 question

raven · 10-10-2003, 07:09 AM

Hello

I have a sis900 onboard ethernet card in my computer. I have kernel 2.4.22.

Does anyone know the module parameters I have to set to use the card in full duplex mode? at this point my NIC works only at half duplex.

Or does anyone have an idea where to get the module parameters that need to be set? It is NOT in <kernelsource>/Documentation/networking/sis900.txt

Thanks

raven

raven · 10-10-2003, 07:43 AM

Ok, already found out.

jhopke · 10-10-2003, 03:13 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by raven
Ok, already found out.

Not to bust your chops or anything, but I see this all the time. Somebody asks a question I NEED to know the answer to, then they reply say, "I GOT IT" And they don't say what they did? You already did 90% of the work coming back to say you got it, so.....How did you fix it?

Thanks,

J

dimkal · 10-11-2003, 12:16 PM

I also have a sis900 onboard card, but i cannot get it to work win Knoppix! can you please tell me what distro you're using?

blither · 10-11-2003, 07:51 PM

well, my sis900 onboard doesnt work unless i do the network thing at the begining when i setup slack, you know (if you use slack) where you have to login then partion the drives then either do setup, network, or pcmcia. so depending on what distro you use it could be different.

raven · 10-12-2003, 04:48 AM

jhopke: sorry, this is how i fixed it: use mii-tool to force full duplex on the card: "miii-tool -F 100baseTx-FD eth0"

blither: what do you mean by "do the network thing at the begining"???

dimkal: what is your problem exactly? what is not working with your card? you have no IP? no card detected?

blither · 10-12-2003, 11:23 AM

ok well, i dont think you can do it for yours now, but when you install slack you have to log into root, then type the command setup, network, or pmcia. and thats what i mean type the network command but i dont think i tiwll work now.

raven · 10-12-2003, 11:38 AM

How come that slack seems to forget your settings? I dont know slack, but id assume that once a setup process is run, the settings are saved. in your case this seems not to be so. Look at the docs what they tell you about setting up networking. Maybe all you need is just add the NIC module to some "module autoload" file. At gentoo this file is in /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.x maybe there is something like this at slack too.

g

raven

FireLinux · 10-14-2003, 10:11 PM

I have a sis900 PCI NIC card and 3Com 3c509 ISA NIC in my Slack, after recompile the kernel to 2.4.22 with both network drivers selected as Module, but only 3Com NIC is working after recompile.

When I modprobe sis900.o, error showing that the irq may have been used by others.

How can I configure multi-NIC in a slack 9.0 system?
How can I force my sis900 NIC to take other irq?

Pls advise.. thanks..

raven · 10-15-2003, 03:13 AM

you cant set module paramters for the sis900 driver. you mus force your 3com ISA card o selet another IRQ. look ath the module parameters (should be in the kernel source DOC) for the 3cXXX NIC.

g

raven

FireLinux · 10-17-2003, 03:59 AM

Thanks raven...

My sis900 NIC is running as eth1 now.. I use ifconfig to bring it up in my old kernel..