Sis900 Onboard LAN and Suse 9.3 having problems!
 

Hello everyone...

I am using Acer Aspire 3002NLC Laptop...

I installed Suse 9.3 Professional...

Now.. a big problem is that suse isnt using my Sis900 Onboard LAN properly...

I mean.. it doesnt ping to itself.. or to the gateway...
I read about some issues of Suse with SIS900 on there website...

I did... hwinfo --network_ctrl
and the REVISION field had 0x91

Can anyone tell me how to make this adapater work in Suse 9.3 Pro??
I am definately sure...that i havent done any mistakes in configuring IP's or stuff....cos the same stuff works in my windows boot...

So please help!

Thanks

EDIT... I read something more on other websites....and while booting if add the parameter:
pci=noacpi
then my LAN works perfectly...everything fine.. gateway pings and stuff!
So the question is.. how to put a permanent solution to this??

And if 'pci=noacpi' is the only solution.. how to put it permanently..so that i dont have to type it at every boot??

Thanks

put it to kernel parameter.
if you use grub as loader it's in the file "/boot/grub/grub.conf"
after open this file you will know how to edit it.

If above is not work
you can put it to /etc/profile
or /home/yourusername/.bash_profile
or /etc/rc.d/rc.local or /etc/init.d/***
or any pre-start script.
Good luck

Hello friends.. thanks for the replies...

Well in boot/grub/grub/... there is no grub.conf file!

When i searched for the grub.conf file.. it was in /etc/ folder
I opened the file to find the following two lines in it:

Now..tell where to add the kernel boot paramater?

Thanks

Just stumbled across this thread - I know it's old now. But the location would be /boot/grub/ and the file is menu.lst - this is where you can add the parameter.