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gveda
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 Posted: Sun Jan 12, 2003 4:02 pm Post subject: SiS 900 (Lan Card) not detected |
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Hi !
| Quote: | | I have posted this on the Networking & Security forum also. I did that earlier in the day. However on second thoughts I realised that this was a better place to post such a query since it is related to installation. I am sorry to cross-post. |
I am new not only to Gentoo but also to Linux. I am having lots of problems during the installation from the Live CD 1.4 rc1. My exact system config is :
Athlon XP 2000+
Motherboard : ASUS A7S266 VM (Lan Card inbuilt)
Chipset : Northbridge SiS 740
SouthBridge SiS 961B
LAN : SiS 961B integrated 10/100 Mbps Fast Ethernet with Realtek external PHY
The problem is that when I do net-setup eth0 and give in all the details (like IP, Broadcast etc ..) I get an error saying
SIOCSIFADDR : No such device
eth0 : unknown interface : No such deveice
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when I did modprobe sis900.0 I get an error
modprobe : cannot locate module sis900
Everything works fine in Windoze XP. It detects my Lan card as SiS 900 based fast ethernet adapter with IRQ as 22. Networking does not even work in RedHat 8.0 It also says device not found.
I thought there was a problem with the IRQ as in RedHat I got options to fill in IRQ only till 15 for the network device. So in my BIOS I changed interrupt from APIC to PIC (so as to allow IRQ allotments only till 16). But doing this led even to more problems : Now my windoze wont boot. Also still in Gentoo or Red Hat (which I had installed) I was unable to set up Networking.
Plug and Play is off in my BIOS.
Also my BIOS shows the Network Controller at IRQ 9.
Please help me find a solution to this problem and finally have Linux up and running on my system ! Maybe this is a motherboard specific problem (I really dont know).
Thanx in advance,
Gaurav
Just for additional informtion : I am on a network behind a proxy server that requires authentication.
During bot I also get spurious 8259A interrupt on IRQ7 -- and my parallel port is not set to IRQ7 ! |
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cyfred
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| Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2003 2:12 am Post subject: |
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By the looks of it the 1.4_rc1 kernel doesnt have sis900 support compiled into it or as a module by default...
You will need to compile a kernel with this support and use that instead before you can contiune. Support is in the Networking Devices Section -> 10/100 Ethernet Cards -> EISA other PCI cards -> SiS 900/xyz |
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scocou
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| Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2003 7:23 am Post subject: |
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Hard to recompile a kernel if you can't download it... My lame answer - try the 1.4RC2 live-cd. My better answer - | Quote: | | when I do net-setup eth0 and give in all the details |
Did you first try #pci-setup as described in the guide? That may easily solve your problem if you forgot. My non-technical answer - try switching pci slots, it's worked for me before. |
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cyfred
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| Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2003 1:43 pm Post subject: |
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Dont the liveCD's come with the kernel tree on them?
I will check this myself but more posting out of exclamation |
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brain
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| Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2003 2:26 pm Post subject: |
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| scocou wrote: | Hard to recompile a kernel if you can't download it... My lame answer - try the 1.4RC2 live-cd. My better answer - | Quote: | | when I do net-setup eth0 and give in all the details |
Did you first try #pci-setup as described in the guide? That may easily solve your problem if you forgot. My non-technical answer - try switching pci slots, it's worked for me before. |
I have the same card on my mobo, and the 1.4_rc3 live CD works just fine.
Depending on the kernel he's trying to use, the SiS NIC can take quite a while to wake up, as well.
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cyfred
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| Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2003 2:29 pm Post subject: |
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Im assuming you mean the rc2 CD.
And well I dont have my rc2 CD handy to check on so I just popped in the rc1 CD and had a look to see what it had. Strange though, there seems to be a fair few problems with the network device setup for the release candidates. |
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gveda
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| Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2003 2:35 pm Post subject: |
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Hi !
Well I did do pci-setup (dutifully following each step of the install guide). Scocou there is no question of changing the pci slot since the LAN card is inbuilt !
Also cyfred I am sorry but could not find the document you referred to !
Moreover I want to know about the hardware devices supported by the 1.4_rc2 version. Is there any document on the web ?
Thanx !
Gaurav |
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brain
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| Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2003 9:11 pm Post subject: |
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| cyfred wrote: | | Im assuming you mean the rc2 CD. |
Yea, I did. typo!
| cyfred wrote: | | And well I dont have my rc2 CD handy to check on so I just popped in the rc1 CD and had a look to see what it had. Strange though, there seems to be a fair few problems with the network device setup for the release candidates. |
I typically don't even use the pci-setup utility on the RC's... like you I've seen quite a few problems with them (why does it always try to load cpqarray?!)
As far as the SiS900 nic, it's been relatively solid under kernels > 2.4.16. Prior to that, support was shoddy.
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brain
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| Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2003 9:19 pm Post subject: Re: SiS 900 (Lan Card) not detected |
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| gveda wrote: |
when I did modprobe sis900.0 I get an error
modprobe : cannot locate module sis900
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The 1.4_rc1 CD doesn't seem to have support for the SiS900 card.
My suggestion is to grab 1.4rc_2, since one of the changes is that driver support for every NIC has been built into the kernel on that LiveCD. I've used it personally on my machine and it was fine.
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cyfred
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| Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2003 10:56 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | I typically don't even use the pci-setup utility on the RC's... like you I've seen quite a few problems with them (why does it always try to load cpqarray?!) |
Im not sure about cpqarray, but there are also a fair few bugs with the actual network connections. I actually had to boot from a 1.2 cd and use the 1.4_rc2 tarball to install because eth0 was having transmit timeouts. |
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doll1
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| Posted: Wed Jan 15, 2003 1:54 pm Post subject: |
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I have also problems with this sis900 onboard. Detection seems to be fine with 1.4_rc2. Ifconfig is able to give it an ip-address and shows me it's hardware-address. But that's all. I'm not able to get an adsl-connect or even a connection to my dhcp-server.
What I found out, is:
BIOS lists the network controller with irq5
ifconfig says irq:19 io:0xec00
/proc/ioports 0xec00 - 0xecff: sis900
/proc/interrupts IO-APIC irq 19
(even if I boot with: gentoo noapic. I tried this, because I once got it run with knoppix. And there it was listed under /proc/interrupts with XT-PIC irq 5.)
Please help me too, because I have no further ideas. 
The Bios is not really comfortable in allowing this or that or not. |
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cyfred
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| Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2003 1:24 pm Post subject: |
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| doll1 wrote: | | I have also problems with this sis900 onboard. Detection seems to be fine with 1.4_rc2. Ifconfig is able to give it an ip-address and shows me it's hardware-address. But that's all. I'm not able to get an adsl-connect or even a connection to my dhcp-server. |
Yes I know the feeling same thing was happening to me.
First things first, what happens if you boot with gentoo acpi=no ??
Does it work then?
If not...
Can you boot with a 1.4_rc2 CD and get the connection to work?
Can you boot with a customised 1.2 cd and get the connection to work? |
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doll1
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| Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2003 2:09 pm Post subject: |
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| cyfred wrote: |
First things first, what happens if you boot with gentoo acpi=no ??
Does it work then? |
I have to try this later, I'm at work now
| Quote: | | Can you boot with a 1.4_rc2 CD and get the connection to work? |
'think you meant 1.4_rc1. Also didn't try for now
| Quote: | | Can you boot with a customised 1.2 cd and get the connection to work? |
same thing
will answer these in a few hours
But once I got it running, chrooting from knoppix. And even after the complete install-process and reboot into gentoo it connected well.
Unfortunatly, in case of a mistake, I had to reinstall and it never happened again
Update
acpi=no doesn't work 
_rc1 doesn't work
and now I'm going to download me a 1.2 image. For the test only, because I read some deterrend article about upgrading from 1.2 to 1.4.
'til soon |
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ollie
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| Posted: Sat Jan 25, 2003 1:35 pm Post subject: |
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| disable apic in bios.... works for me.. |
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doll1
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| Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2003 11:32 am Post subject: |
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Yep,
my bios isn't that comfortable,
and noapic didn't work for the 1.4_rc2 boot cd
but it did with the self made kernel  |
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hielvc
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| Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2003 4:42 pm Post subject: |
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I have MSI 6378xl ( which I dont recomend for gentoo) and AMptron 810 (works great with gentoo) that has the SIS900. To get it to work with 1.4_rc2 lvcd try "insmod sis900" then "dhcpcd eth?" and off I went lickity split.
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BlackBart
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| Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2003 12:11 am Post subject: |
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| did you do modprobe sis900.o or sis900. I don't think it works if you do *.o |
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nostalg1c
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| Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2003 10:31 pm Post subject: SiS900 Lan |
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I'm not sure whether or not you have been able to fix the problem, but I have the same onboard LAN (SiS900), and these are my experiences:
- The LiveCD I used (1.4rc2) had no problem whatsoever getting the NIC to run.
- Once Gentoo was installed, the NIC didn't work anymore. I had all kernel modules right, even tried to compile them in, without success. Somewhere on the great Net, I found the following kernel parameter: "pci=bios,biosirq". When giving these parameters to the kernel at boot, the NIC works perfect.
My motherboard is an ECS K7SOM+.
Hope this helps,
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mattwebster77
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| Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2004 6:53 pm Post subject: helped me |
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| It helped me, Thanks! |
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