Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 00:52:49 +0100 (CET) From: Alexander <amour@amour.ath.cx> To: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> Cc: dmagda@ee.ryerson.ca, <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>, <FreeBSD-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>, <FreeBSD-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: SiS 900 Ethernet card Message-ID: <20021126004445.I657-100000@amour.ath.cx> In-Reply-To: <3DE2A677.8020709@owt.com>
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Hello,
The problem is that my bios have very few features and I can't disable
the Network Card.
I'm not sure what is the mainboard, it is sis but I don't know which
model. Maybe this dmesg output from OpenBSD may help someone:
cpu0: Intel Pentium 4 ("GenuineIntel" 686-class) 2.20 GHz
cpu0: FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SYS,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SIMD
real mem = 469282816 (458284K)
avail mem = 429006848 (418952K)
using 4278 buffers containing 23568384 bytes (23016K) of memory
mainbus0 (root)
bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+(8d) BIOS, data 07/25/02, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xe87c0
apm0 at bios0: Power Management spec V1.2
apm0: AC on, battery charge unknown
pcibios0 at bios0: rev. 2.1 @ 0xe6000/0x691
pcibios0: PCI IRQ Routing Table rev. 1.0 @ 0xfe840/176 (9 entries)
pcibios0: PCI Interrupt Router at 000:02:0 ("SIS 85C503 ISA" rev 0x00)
pcibios0: PCI bus #2 is the last bus
bios0: ROM list: 0xc0000/0xc000 0xe0000/0x1800! 0xe5000/0x1000! 0xea000/0x5000!
pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (no bios)
pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 vendor "SIS", unknown product 0x650 rev 0x01
ppb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 "SIS 86C201 Host-AGP" rev 0x00
pci1 at ppb0 bus 1
vga1 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 vendor "SIS", unknown product 0x6325 rev
0x00: aperture at 0x90000000, size 0x400000
wsdisplay0 at vga1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation)
wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)
pcib0 at pci0 dev 2 function 0 "SIS 85C503 ISA" rev 0x00
ohci0 at pci0 dev 2 function 2 "SIS 5597/5598 USB" rev 0x07: irq 11, OHCI
version 1.0, legacy support
ohci0: SMM does not respond, resetting
usb0 at ohci0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0 at usb0
uhub0: vendor 0x0000 OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub0: 3 ports with 3 removable, self powered
ohci1 at pci0 dev 2 function 3 "SIS 5597/5598 USB" rev 0x07: irq 11, OHCI
version 1.0, legacy support
usb1 at ohci1: USB revision 1.0
uhub1 at usb1
uhub1: vendor 0x0000 OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub1: 3 ports with 3 removable, self powered
pciide0 at pci0 dev 2 function 5 "SIS 5513 EIDE" rev 0xd0: DMA, channel 0
wired to compatibility, channel 1 wired to compatibility
wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <IC25N040ATCS04-0>
wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA, 38154MB, 16383 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 78140160 sectors
wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2
atapiscsi0 at pciide0 channel 1 drive 0
scsibus0 at atapiscsi0: 2 targets
cd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <SAMSUNG, CDRW/DVD SN-308B, U002> SCSI0
5/cdrom removable
cd0(pciide0:1:0): using PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2
vendor "SIS", unknown product 0x7013 (class communications, subclass
modem, rev 0xa0) at pci0 dev 2 function 6 not configured
vendor "SIS2, unknown product 0x7012 (class multimedia, subclass audio,
rev 0xa0) at pci0 dev 2 function 7 not configured
sis0 at pci0 dev 3 function 0 "SIS 900 10/100BaseTX" rev 0x90: irq 10
address 00:00:00:00:00:00
cbb0 at pci0 dev 9 function 0 "Texas Instruments PCI1410 PCI-CardBus" rev
0x02: irq 10
vendor "NEC", unknown product 0xce (class serial bus, subclass Firewire,
rev 0x01) at pci0 dev 11 function 0 not configured
isa0 at pcib0
isadma0 at isa0
pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5
pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot)
pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot
wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0
pms0 at pckbc0 (aux slot)
pckbc0: using irq 12 for aux slot
wsmouse0 at pms0 mux 0
pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61
midi0 at pcppi0: <PC speaker>
sysbeep0 at pcppi0
lpt0 at isa0 port 0x378/4 irq7
npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/15: using exception 16
cardslot0 at cbb0 slot 0 flags 0
cardbus0 at cardslot0: bus 2 device 0 cacheline 0x8, lattimer 0x40
pcmcia0 at cardslot0
biomask cc0 netmask cc0 ttymask dc82
pctr: user-level cycle counter enabled
dkcsum: wd0 matched BIOS disk 80
root on wd0a
rootdev=0x0 rrootdev=0x300 rawdev=0x302
syncing disks... OpenBSD 3.2 (AMOUR) #2: Tue Nov 19 17:21:00 CET 2002
end of dmesg output;
ifconfig -m sis0:
sis0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
address: 00:00:00:00:00:00
media: Ethernet none (none)
supported media:
media none
inet 192.168.1.2 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
inet6 fe80::7c41:74f5:5650:398d%sis0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
end of ifconfig output;
On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Kent Stewart wrote:
>
>
> Alexander wrote:
>
> > The next thing that comes is the Ethernet Card. It is on board and from
> > the dmesg output You see what happens. The card is working properly on
> > Windows XP, RedHat Linux (OpenBSD have the same problems except for the
> > kernel failure).
> >
> > I've tried removing the driver from the kernel so that at least I can
> > boot and install FreeBSD and then probably go on PCMCIA but the kernel
> > failed again saying that the device is unknown (huh !).
>
> >
> > Please, if someone knows a fix or thinks that can help, write me.
> > I'm ready to test patches and provide more information.
> >
>
> A temporary solution as far as the kernel is concerned is to disable
> the on-board SiS-900 in the bios. Get your boot problem stable. Then,
> you can fix the kernel and try things.
>
> I had problems with the SiS-900 on my SiS-735 based motherboard. I had
> a number of Intel 100's or 3Coms and adding one of them worked just
> fine. You need to be able to cvsup and in my case I am dependant on
> the NIC that is connected to my ADSL modem.
>
> FWIW, an FTP between 2 machines with SiS-900's gives me my fastest
> transfer rates. The 3Com is the slowest. The 3Com's are older because
> I liked the idea of the onboard memory being 2x larger in the Intels.
>
> Kent
>
> --
> Kent Stewart
> Richland, WA
>
> http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html
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