SIS 900 NIC problems with FC1

[jludwig]

On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 14:03, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> Am Di, den 27.04.2004 schrieb jludwig um 19:55:
> 
> > Sorry too quick with send.
> > My lsmod does show sis and sisfb.
> > sis                    53216   1
> > sisfb                 246284   0  [sis]
> 
> Sidenote: sisfb is unrelated to this problem, see
> 
> $ modinfo sisfb
> filename:   
> /lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2188.nptl/kernel/drivers/video/sis/sisfb.o
> description: "SiS 300/540/630/730/315/550/650/740/330/660 framebuffer
> driver"
> 
> > sis900                 15372   1
> > 
> > [root at bgp01547217bgs root]# mii-tool eth0
> > eth0: autonegotiation failed, link ok
> 
> > jludwig <wralphie at comcast.net>
> 
> I remember talking with someone else having too the problem, that the
> onboard SIS NIC did not talk to other ethernet hosts. Same behaviour as
> described here by Gary. It just was no laptop but a PC. Maybe Gary
> should update to latest Fedora kernel .2188 as he is still running the
> original .2115. Without network running it would be necessary to put the
> update package(s) on a CD-R(W).
> 
> Alexander
Thanks this one was straining my brain.
-- 
jludwig <wralphie at comcast.net>