Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 13:46:12 +0100 (CET) From: Alexander <amour@amour.ath.cx> To: Willy Offermans <W.K.Offermans@TUe.nl> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, <FreeBSD-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>, <FreeBSD-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: SiS 900 Ethernet card Message-ID: <20021120134408.P9962-100000@amour.ath.cx> In-Reply-To: <20021120124054.GA79330@tom.chem.tue.nl>
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I just to say that I have similar problem and I also have SiS900 on my Laptop but I only receive MII without any PHY and the system reboots before even booted ! The mac is 00:00:00:00:00:00 It seems that the driver for this network card is not working at all ! P.S. Thanks for the patches, I'll try them On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Willy Offermans wrote: > Dear FreeBSD friends, > > In an email before I reported about a problem with the SiS 900 ethernetca= rd: > > > Dear FreeBSD friends, > > > > I have bought a nice laptop computer (Gericom Masterpiece 25340 XL). > > It has an ethernet card inside, based on SiS 900 chip. > > During boot, FreeBSD can detect the card, but cannot assign an MAC > > address, nor initializing the card. I receive following messages: > > > > .... > > sis0: <SiS 900 10/100BaseTX> port 0xf800-0xf8ff mem 0xe8005000-0xe8005f= ff irq 4 at device 4.0 on pci0 > > sis0: Ethernet address: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff > > sis0: MII without any PHY! > > device_probe_and_attach: sis0 attach returned 6 > > .... > > > > Does anybody know to solve this problem? > > On that I received two different patches, which could solve the problem. = I have attached them to this email: > sis.diff from Luoqi Chen and if_sis.patch from Jeff Seeman. > > if_sis.patch didn't do the job. The message during boot didn't change and= moreover I was not able to use the ethernet device. > > sis.diff did a better a job, but it solved the problem partly. Have a loo= k to the output during boot: > > ... > sis0: <SiS 900 10/100BaseTX> port 0xf800-0xf8ff mem 0xe8005000-0xe8005fff= irq 5 at device 4.0 on pci0 > sis0: Ethernet address: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff > miibus0: <MII bus> on sis0 > ukphy0: <Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface> on miibus0 > ukphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto > pcic0: <YENTA PCI-CardBus Bridge> irq 11 at device 10.0 on pci0 > pcic0: PCI Memory allocated: 0x88000000 > ... > > Still the system is not able to retrieve the MAC address from the etherne= tcard. > > Of course I could assign a MAC address manually and work around the probl= em (ifconfig sis0 lladdr xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx), but still it would be nice to = have a driver which does a proper job. > > Is a better patch available? > > > -- > Met vriendelijke groeten, > With kind regards, > Mit freundlichen Gr=FC=DFen, > > Willy > > ************************************* > W.K. Offermans > Eindhoven University of Technology > Department of Chemical Engineering > Laboratory of Catalysis (SKA) > building ST-W 4.27, PO Box 513 > 5600 MB Eindhoven, Netherlands > Tel: 0(031) 40 247 37 81 > Fax: 0(031) 40 247 50 32 > Home: 0(031) 45 544 49 99 > e-mail: w.k.offermans@tue.nl > http://www.catalysis.nl > > If you are bored playing with Bill Gates' toy, start to work with = a real operating system > Feel free, feel FreeBSD .... (www.FreeBSD.org) > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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