Onboard LAN with a Asus K8S-MX

Pimm · 01-03-2006, 03:27 PM

Lo there,

I'm in serious trouble, and I need to get the internet working quick, since my dad is about to install Windows XP on his PC to run Media Center for his TV card.

I installed SimplyMEPIS 3.3.1-1 on my PC, but the internet doesn't work.

My PC:
CPU: AMD Sempron 2800+
MB: Asus K8S-MX
Internal memory: 2x 512 MB Kingston memory
Videocard: None (using the onboard video function)
Soundcard: Creative Live! 5.1 (that doesn't work, but I'll try to fix the internet first)
HD: Maxtor 160 GB S-ATA drive (that doesn't work, but I'll try to fix the internet first) plus Maxtor 20 GB P-ATA drive (that does work)

My PC is connected with the onboard LAN port to a router with the IP 192.168.1.1 that is connected to our ADSL line. This Windows 2000 PC right here connects with it with no problems.

To make sure you don't search for things I already know, someone told me the motherboard has a SIS 190/191 NIC onboard

I asked others, they gave me all kinds of commands to write in terminal and tell them the output, these are the results:

ifconfig:

Code:

lo
Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:32 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:32 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:1480 (1.4 KiB) TX bytes:1480 (1.4 KiB)

lspci:

Code:

0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 760/M760 Host (rev 03)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SG86C202
0000:00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS965 [MuTIOL Media IO] (rev 47)
0000:00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev 01)
0000:00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Sound Controller (rev a0)
0000:00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 0f)
0000:00:03.1 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 0f)
0000:00:03.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 0f)
0000:00:03.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0 Controller
0000:00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]: Unknown device 0190
0000:00:05.0 RAID bus controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]: Unknown device 0182 (rev 01)
0000:00:06.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]: Unknown device 000a
0000:00:07.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]: Unknown device 000a
0000:00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
0000:00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
0000:00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
0000:00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 661FX/M661FX/M661MX/741/M741/760/M760 PCI/AGP

ping 192.168.1.1 (or ping 192.168.0.1 which replies the same thing):

Code:

PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1): 56 bytes
ping: sendto: Network is unreachable
ping: write: 192.168.1.1 64 chars, ret -1

cat /etc/network/interfaces:

Code:

# /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration file for ifup(8), ifdown(8)
mapping hotplug
  script echo

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# DO NOT EDIT BELOW THIS LINE
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
  address 192.168.1.10
  netmask 255.255.255.0
  broadcast 192.168.0.255
  gateway 192.168.1.1
 #wireless_essid any
 #wireless_mode Managed
 #wireless_freq 0
 #wireless_nwid none
 #wireless_key off
#auto eth1
iface eth1 inet dhcp
  address 192.168.0.15
  netmask 255.255.255.0
  broadcast 192.168.0.255
  gateway 192.168.0.1
 #wireless_essid any
 #wireless_mode Managed
 #wireless_freq 0
 #wireless_nwid none
 #wireless_key off
auto ath0
iface ath0 inet dhcp
  address 192.168.0.15
  netmask 255.255.255.0
  broadcast 192.168.0.255
  gateway 192.168.0.1
 #wireless_essid any
 #wireless_mode Managed
 #wireless_freq 0
 #wireless_nwid none
 #wireless_key off
auto ra0
iface ra0 inet dhcp
  address 192.168.0.15
  netmask 255.255.255.0
  broadcast 192.168.0.255
  gateway 192.168.0.1
 #wireless_essid any
 #wireless_mode Managed
 #wireless_freq 0
 #wireless_nwid none
 #wireless_key off
auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
  address 192.168.0.15
  netmask 255.255.255.0
  broadcast 192.168.0.255
  gateway 192.168.0.1
 #wireless_essid any
 #wireless_mode Managed
 #wireless_freq 0
 #wireless_nwid none
 #wireless_key off
# DO NOT EDIT ABOVE THIS LINE

I hope you can help... if you do, I'll be your personal helper at Flash if you want to

Thanks!

mjjzf · 01-04-2006, 08:02 AM

Quote:

0000:00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]: Unknown device 0190

This would be the relevant device. Most likely, a kernel module has to be called or compiled into the kernel. I am unfamiliar with the hardware - anyone?
Do you have anything like 'sis' in /usr/lib/modules?

mos · 01-04-2006, 04:47 PM

do these commands as root:
modprobe sis900
echo "sis900" >> /etc/modules

Pimm · 01-08-2006, 02:27 PM

I did that, and now I get this on startup:

Code:

Loading modules...
sys900
FATAL: Module sys900 not found.
sys900
FATAL: Module sys900 not found.

coolmohitz · 01-12-2006, 09:04 AM

You need to download the LAN driver (Sis 190) for linux from sis website and
recompile the kernel.

If u don't get what i mean, just wait till the weekend.
I am in the process of writing a
detailed howto for the above.

Be free to Contact me on mohit_fc@rediffmail.com

Mohit

dormantor · 01-14-2006, 12:43 PM

I think I have the same problem with my slackware..maybe the only different is my NIC is detected... but it just wont connect... (or maybe its irrelevant but I'm tagging this thread)

Pimm · 01-15-2006, 02:59 PM

I've contacted you, I'm looking forward to the howto.

skrye · 01-18-2006, 03:18 AM

This motherboard and chipset is notoriously unsupported by linux, i found this page though with some work arounds

http://linux.derkeiler.com/Newsgroup...5-05/0707.html

Pimm · 01-18-2006, 04:48 PM

Wow, thanks a lot! I'm going to read that article tomorrow. Oh, and thanks again.

Pimm · 01-21-2006, 11:55 AM

I read it all, and the website says:

Quote:

The good luck is, the driver compiles and "works" (such as it does)
just by copying the source (sis190.c) from 2.6.5 sources and setting
it up into the current source tree (for SuSE 9.2, current being
2.6.8-24.14). Setting up means:
- add a section with SIS190 into drivers/net/Kconfig
(I just copied from SIS900 section)
- add a line with CONFIG_SIS190 into drivers/net/Makefile
(again, copy and change from the CONFIG_SIS900 line)
- place a copy of the sis190.c (from 2.6.5 sources) into drivers/net
- configure and compile

Now... I'm glad to see that there is a solution, but I still don't know what to do. I'm new to linux and I need some more explanation. Any links to howto's or anything are very welcome!

coolmohitz · 01-28-2006, 03:49 AM

I wrote a detailed howto. Thanks to the driver README and my personal
experience. Chek it out at

http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~mohitz/tech/k8smx.php

The formatting is not good. Have to edit the page. Just don't
find time enuf. I hope its useful.

mos · 01-28-2006, 12:30 PM

if you install the latest version of MEPIS 3.4-3rc3 it will come with a 2.6.15 kernel, this one will support your card.

Pimm · 02-01-2006, 04:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mos

if you install the latest version of MEPIS 3.4-3rc3 it will come with a 2.6.15 kernel, this one will support your card.

Yes, that's right!
I installed SimplyMEPIS 3.4-3.rc4 and this OS supports the ethernet chip!
Also, it supports the S-ATA drive that was in my PC.

Thanks a lot!