Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 15:26:12 +0100 From: Willy Offermans <W.K.Offermans@TUe.nl> To: Wolfgang Zenker <wolfgang@lyxys.ka.sub.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SiS 900 Ethernet card Message-ID: <20021120142612.GA81928@tom.chem.tue.nl> In-Reply-To: <m18EVRs-003pVqC@lyxys.ka.sub.org> References: <20021120133855.GC81680@tom.chem.tue.nl> <m18EVRs-003pVqC@lyxys.ka.sub.org>
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Dear FreeBSD friend, I'm not able to hack the code myself, I'm just a FreeBSD user (enthousiastic one) not a developer. So it would be nice if someone else could do it. On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 03:03:24PM +0100, Wolfgang Zenker wrote: > Hello, > > > sis0@pci0:4:0: class=0x020000 card=0xb7321019 chip=0x09001039 rev=0x91 hdr=0x00 > > vendor = 'Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS)' > > device = 'SiS900 Fast Ethernet/Home Networking Ctrlr' > > class = network > > subclass = ethernet > > that's apparently a SiS962 chip. This one is not (yet) supported in FreeBSD; > the MAC address is stored on an EEPROM that is shared with the IEEE 1394 > port and needs a special access protocol. If you want to hack on the driver > yourself, a search for "sis962" and "sis900.c" or "sis900.h" on google > should get you the information what was changed on the linux driver to > support this particular chip. I _might_ find the time next weekend to > cobble together a patch you could try. > > Wolfgang -- Met vriendelijke groeten, 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-hackers" in the body of the message
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