SIS 900 NIC problems with FC1

[jludwig]

On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 11:48, Gary Stainburn wrote:

> 
> However, the ping problem confuses me.
> 
> I can ping myself 10.2.1.7) which tell me that the IP stack is working and 
> that the card's been recognised right?

Verify that the host isn't dropping or not getting your pings for some
reason, such as an intermediate gateway.
> 
> I don't know what the broadcast ping proves though, and when I try to ping a 
> remote host, or from another box try to ping my laptop it doesn't work.  
> Surely, this is still an IP related issue.
> 
> > 2) Is there another Linux box to check for configuration information?

I don't know how 'skilled' you are with Linux so I assumed nominal
knowledge.

> How do you mean check the config? If you mean the IP settings, they're correct 
> and match all the other boxes I have.  I did statr off with dhcp enabled, but 
> changed it to manual settings when that didn't work initially.
> 
> If you mean card settings, then I can't help as I don't have another box with 
> a SIS900 card in.
> 
> >
> > > --- 10.2.0.0 ping statistics ---
> > > 3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2004ms
> > > rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.228/0.250/0.263/0.015 ms, pipe 2
> > > [root at localhost root]# uname -a
> > > Linux localhost.localdomain 2.4.22-1.2115.nptl #1 Wed Oct 29 15:42:51 EST
> > > 2003 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> > > [root at localhost root]#
> > > [gary at gary gary]$
I suspect that there is something strange going on here. I do know when
running RH6.2 I had to download and compile the SIS drivers from their
web site. This would be the only option I see at this point.
BTW the only module my modules.conf shows for this card is sis900.
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jludwig <wralphie at comcast.net>