Which module to load for networking w/Sis735 chipset?

[vicG]

Hi all,

I have this motherboard:

http://www.ecsusa.com/products/k7s5a_v3.html

It has an SiS735 Chipset, and, according to this page:
http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/article/1354.3/
"The integrated chipset also supports on-board integrated 10/100BaseT networking"

Lovely, but that doesn't help me in make menuconfig. I'm in the "Networking Support -> Ethernet (10 or 100)" section, and there's only one entry for anything from SiS, but it's a PCI card

Thanks for any help,

vg

[MBMarduk]

Your module is called sis900.o
# modprobe sis900

I can't remember which option it was but you can clearly read your SiS735 chipset in the HELP portion of the option in question.

[vicG]

Thanks, MBMarduk -- as root, I did a modprobe sis900, but got:

FATAL: Module sis900 not found.

I'm using gentoo-dev-sources, 2.6.7-rc11 -- any idea where the sis900 might be lurking?

I rebuilt my kernel, adding only a "load as module" for SIS900 (although it says it's a PCI card). When I ran make && make modules install && make install I saw that it was doing something with a file called sis900.o, so I got happy.

After reboot, lsmod shows no entries, and modprobe sis900 still gives the "FATAL" error.

What durn noob mistakes am I still making?

Thanks much

[MBMarduk]

Dunno.
I'm still using 2.4.x sources. In 2.4.x it's under Network device support-->Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit) --->[*] EISA, VLB, PCI and on board controllers-->SiS 900/7016 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter support

[vicG]

I put in a 3Com card (3C905cx) and I'm having the same problem, so I think it's not the NICs that are at issue.

I rebuitl my kernel with support for 3COM cards and the 3C900 series, rebooted, still "netmount" probs during botup, and lsmod shows nothing at all still.

modprobe 3c*** comes back FATAL: Module 3c*** not found.

It can't seem to find or load any module. This is prolly not a networking problem, but some noob stupidity related to my kernel config or other gaping error.

Moderator, can you move this Q to a more appropriate forum? Maybe kernel & h/w or installation? Thanks...

[MBMarduk]

What I've done previously is just select all modules for a piece of hardware I was trying to get to work and see which one worked.

BTW, don't get fooled by the 3Com naming scheme. Look here:

[nobspangle]

the make target to install the modules is

[vicG]

Thanks MBMarduk -- I had read that in the vortex.txt file in /usr/src/linux/Documentation. When I try and modprobe it, I get 3 error messages in dmesg:

Unknown symbol eisa_unregister
Unknown symbol eisa_register
Unknown symbol eisa_bus_type

So I ditched any plans to use the 3Com.

However, thanks to nobspangle, all those modules finally got installed! I was able to modprobe them, and once I got that dmesg error from the 3Com card, I started poklng around in dmesg, and I noticed that there was an entry about a RealTek 8139 PHY ethernet controller.

Didn't know I had one on the mobo, but I re-re-re-re-re-built the kernel with all those RealTek modules, (correctly loaded thanks to y'all), modprobed them, ran dhcpcd eth0 and viola! Connectivity!

Thanks so much for your help, I hope this helps someone else down the line.

One last thing: do I have to modprobe the 8139* modules every time I boot? Is there some way to have this happen automagically?

[diaz]

To autoload these modules:

1. Do a lsmod, and see which modules you need.
2. cd to /etc/modules.autoload.d/ and open the file with parts of your kernels name on it.
3. Enter the name of the module you want loaded at boot-time (without any trailing .o).
If you want 8139too(.o), just enter 8139too on a seperate line.

[vicG]

Thanks, diaz!