Sis 900 Ethernet Card Problem

[Paul Howarth]

mfr100 at libero.it wrote:
> My distro is Linux FC2 and in my PC I have a main board with Sis 900 network device embedded in the main board.
> After installation of Linux FC2 the network hardware was automatically found by the system and I only configured the network device using the graphic interface (no dhcp and I put IP Address, Subnet Mask and Gateway Address).
> 
> When I restart the PC I have this error at boot:
> "Sis 900 device eth0 does not seem to be present. Delaying initialization"
> I have the same error if I try to Activate the device from the graphic interface.
> 
> I have checked BIOS and it seems OK: I have no plug and play OS setted and the LAN board is active.
> 
> ifconfig does not show me any information about my device. Just the loopback interface.
> 
> I run modprobe sis900 but it did not help.
> 
> I tried also to disable OnBoard LAN from BIOS and enable it again just to run Kudzu and configure again the NIC board but it did not help.
> 
> I attach the dmesg output .
> 
> I am new to Linux, can anyone help me?
> Thanks.
> 
> ciao
> 
> 
> Linux version 2.6.5-1.358 (bhcompile at bugs.build.redhat.com) (gcc version 3.3.3 2 0040412 (Red Hat Linux 3.3.3-7)) #1 Sat May 8 09:04:50 EDT 2004

...

> sis900.c: v1.08.07 11/02/2003
> PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:01.1
> PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:0f.1
> divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0
> eth0: Can not find ISA bridge

This may be a problem related to the chipset PCI ID changing; see: 
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0405.2/0071.html

Try one of the recent errata kernel updates (> 2.6.6) and it may well be fixed.

Paul.