Re: [SLE] sis900 support in SuSE 9.1 is broken!

From: peter Nikolic (p.nikolic1_at_btinternet.com)
Date: 08/18/04

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Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 23:45:57 +0100

    On Tuesday 17 Aug 2004 17:25, Marcos Lazarini wrote:
    > peter Nikolic wrote:
    > >
    > > On Tuesday 17 Aug 2004 04:40, Marcos Vinicius Lazarini wrote:
    > > > Hi,
    > > >
    > > > I was trying to install SuSE Linux Pro 9.1 using the ftp-version into an
    > > > old Celeron Machine, with a sis900 Ethernet NIC. After running into a
    > > > *lot* of trouble to make the sis900 Network Card work (logs were
    > > > complaining about ISA Bridge), I discovered that it's support is broken
    > > > in kernels from 2.6.3 to 2.6.5 (perhaps 2.6.6 also) here:
    > > > http://teg.homeunix.org/sis900.html
    > > > (Just to mention, last updated kernel from SuSE 9.1 uses 2.6.5)
    > > > I could not find any reference thee this problem in the list's archives.
    > > >
    > > > In that page there is a patch to the kernel-source, but I was looking
    > > > for a more easily maintained version - so I don't have to recompile the
    > > > kernel myself to fix the security holes.
    > > >
    > > > My question: is it possible to restore sis900 support (using the simple
    > > > patch in the page above) in the next update of the kernel image?
    > > > Who can I mail to ask this change to be made in the next versions?
    > > >
    > > >
    > > > Regards,
    > > > Marcos Lazarini
    > > > NICS Admin @ Unicamp - Brazil
    > > >
    > > Hi ..
    > >
    > > I think sis900 support is just fine ..
    > > 0000:00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 10/100 Ethernet (rev 90)
    > > works just fine here never misses a beat yast found it on install ok ..
    > >
    > > Try the latest Suse kernel 2.6.5-7.104-default the sis900 is ok and aas far as
    > > i know the holes that existed have been plugged .
    > >
    > > Pete.
    > >
    > > --
    > > Linux user No: 256242
    > > Machine No: 139931
    > > G6NJR Pete also MSA registered "Quinton 11"
    > > A Linux Only area Happy bug hunting M$ clan
    > > PGN
    >
    >
    > That's the point. I have a board with different revision number.
    >
    > # lspci
    > ...
    > 0000:00:01.1 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]
    > SiS900 10/100 Ethernet (rev 81)
    > ...
    >
    > BTW, the module is installed but never used:
    > # lsmod
    > Module Size Used by
    > ....
    > sis900 19716 0
    > ...
    >
    >
    > I'll try to summarize what I found:
    > Until kernel 2.6.3, sis900 had PCI device ID 0x10390008 (do cat
    > /proc/bus/pci/devices to check yours). But this ID prevents SMBus to
    > work correctly; to fix, they changed the PCI ID to 0x10390018 in
    > versions 2.6.3 and after.
    > According to the link above, the sis900 module was changed to detect the
    > new PCI ID only after version 2.6.6.
    >
    > Right now, I'm waiting to finish the (long) compilation of my patched
    > kernel (2.6.5-7.104-default) to see if it works.
    >
    > I also tried Knoppix, using the 2.6.6 kernel, and got the same problem.
    >
    >
    > Regards,
    > Marcos Lazarini
    >
    Huimmmmmmm cant even make much sense of the listing at the moment
    it is not making much sense right now still I'll look in the morning when i wake up a bit
    just one thing is your eth on the MoBo or a PCI card..?. 

    -- 
Linux user No: 256242
Machine    No: 139931
G6NJR  Pete  also MSA registered  "Quinton 11"
A Linux Only area  Happy bug hunting M$ clan
	PGN
 
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