Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 16:13:51 +0100 From: Willy Offermans <W.K.Offermans@TUe.nl> To: Howard Harvey <howard@digitalanvil.ca> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SiS 900 Ethernet card Message-ID: <20021120151351.GA82119@tom.chem.tue.nl> In-Reply-To: <006501c290a3$464aa040$03c8a8c0@lhasa> References: <20021120133855.GC81680@tom.chem.tue.nl> <m18EVRs-003pVqC@lyxys.ka.sub.org> <20021120142612.GA81928@tom.chem.tue.nl> <006501c290a3$464aa040$03c8a8c0@lhasa>
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Dear FreeBSD friend, Indeed it is, as you call it, one of those 'silicon on the motherboard' things. So I don't know if this is more difficult for you to do. On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 07:44:05AM -0700, Howard Harvey wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > 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> > Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 7:26 AM > Subject: Re: SiS 900 Ethernet card > > > > 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. > > Is this one of those 'silicon on the motherboard' things or > an external PCI card? I've hacked ethernet drivers before > and if it's just a PCI card, I would certainly be willing to > have a (w)hack at it. > > 2 > H [howard@digitalanvil.ca] > > If you don't realize it's crazy > If you don't understand the source > Don't reach too fast for the answers > Cuz it get's worse. > --- Headstones > > > 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, With kind regards, Mit freundlichen Gruessen, 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-stable" in the body of the message
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