Thanks, Leo, I just discovered the solution to getting the SiS 900 ethernet adapter to load with RedHat 8.0: set PNP BIOS to False in the system's BIOS. The hint was that kudzu was hanging at boot and I should have suspected a BIOS problem at that point. Instead I went down the path of disabling kudzu and tackling the problem from the wrong direction. A gold star goes to "Moose's Weblog" for the tip that clued me in: http://moose.qx.net/logs/00000012.html Now, if I could just get the refresh rate on my nVidia GeForce4 up from 60hz ! Card Nice. Flicker Bad. Unfortunately nVidia's latest drivers don't support 2.4.18-19.8.0 yet - grrr... Nigel On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 19:01, Redhat wrote: > I have a Redhat 8.0 server running on a systems with an onboard SiS 900 > adapter. During the installation of the systems, Redhat 8.0 had no > problem detecting the adapter and enabling it. What I have had problems > with is the adapter shutting down for no apparent reason. For that > reason, I am going to disable the SiS 900 and install a differnet > network adapter. > > This has been my experience with the SiS 900 for what it's worth. > > Leo > > > Message: 4 > > Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 15:00:23 -0800 > > From: Nigel Simpson <nigel.simpson@Sun.COM> > > Subject: RE: 8.0 Problems - SIS900 series controller will not load. > > To: psyche-list@redhat.com > > Reply-To: psyche-list@redhat.com > > > > I appear to be in the same situation that Christopher A. Williams was in > > on 02 Oct 2002: > > > > https://listman.redhat.com/pipermail/psyche-list/2002-October/000424.html > > > > namely trying to figure out how to get a SiS900 ethernet driver to load > > with RedHat 8.0. I installed the 2.4.18-19.8.0 kernel which is supposed > > to include support for the SiS900: > > > > Ethernet interface not working on SiS 963 south bridge (SiS 648 chipset) > > http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=77258 > > > > and indeed, the module does now load. The problem is that the driver > > fails to activate. I see encouraging messages from dmesg: > > > > eth0: Realtek RTL8201 PHY transceiver found at address 1, > > eth0: Using transciever found at address 1 as default > > eth0: SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet at 0x9800, IRQ 0, 00:e0:18:ea:28:88 > > > > but the system refuses to ping and ifconfig shows zero activity. > > > > Anyone figured out what's needed to get the SiS900 driver to work with > > this hardware ? > > > > FWIW, this is an ASUS P4S8X motherboard. > > > > Cheers ! > > > > Nigel > > > > > > > > > -- > Psyche-list mailing list > Psyche-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
