Integrated ethernet on SiS chipset NOW does work

[Jean Francois Martinez <jfm512@free.fr>]

A month ago you wrote:

Le mer 04/08/2004 à 10:32, Daniele Venzano a écrit :
> On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 09:42:36PM +0200, Jean Francois Martinez wrote:
> > Here is the interesting part of his dmesg, after reloading the
> > sis900 driver.  We can see that the card
> > indentifies a VIA transceiver at address 1 but instead uses the 
> > (inexistent) one at address 31.
> 
> > eth0: VIA 6103 PHY transceiver found at address 1.
> ...
> > eth0: Unknown PHY transceiver found at address 31.
> > eth0: Using transceiver found at address 31 as default
> > eth0: SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet at 0xe800, IRQ 11, 00:0c:76:68:a9:89.
> 
> This behaviuor should be corrected in tha latest kernels (mm or bk) by
> the patches available here:
> http://teg.homeunix.org/sis900.html
> 
> If all fails this patch should work just fine:
> http://teg.homeunix.org/download/kpatches/sis900-list-phy-ids.diff
> But is just for that particular case.
> 

I applied the patch to the sis900 driver in 2.4.21 (Suse).  This fixed
the problem and the integrated ethernet now works.  Thank you.

Sorry for the delay.

				JFM