Newbie with SiS 900 NIC driver, SuSE 8.1 and Fujitsu-Siemens Celvin EasyPC.

Newbie with SiS 900 NIC driver, SuSE 8.1 and Fujitsu-Siemens Celvin EasyPC.

[Brian Durant]

Please personally CC the answers/comments posted to the list in response 
to my posting, as I am not a list member. I have tried getting the SiS 
900 driver to run on SuSE 7.3, (and now) 8.1, Mandrake 8, 8.1, 9, Debian 
3 rev.1 as well as running the latest Knoppix, none of which has been 
successful. Being a newbie and having only an interest in this one issue 
that I have never been able to resolve, I really don't belong on the 
list either. However, I believe that there is either a bug in the driver 
or my configuration is not supported. Either way, I would like to get 
the issue cleared up.

Anyway, to the issue at hand. There is a Fujitsu-Siemens Celvin EasyPC 
connected to my home WAN/LAN that I have been trying to get to work with 
the SiS 900 driver. The box has a SiS 900 NIC built into a Biostar 
motherboard and uses an Award BIOS. The WAN/LAN consists of 4 computers 
connected to a LinkSys router and a 3 Com cable modem. All other 
computers are able to connect to the Internet through auto DHCP, 
including one that is a dual boot Win2k Pro and SuSE 8.1 box. The Celvin 
is neither able to connect through auto DHCP or with a static IP 
address. I have checked the physical connection using a USB to Ethernet 
adapter and Knoppix, so I know the problem doesn't lie there. The SiS 
900 NIC itself, works fine under Win 98 SE. This seems to me to rule out 
a number of things. Using SuSE 8.1, I have tried:

su
hwinfo --network_ctrl

Included in the info that came back was the following:

Revision: 0 x 01
Driver status: active
Config status: cfg=yes avail=yes need=no

I have found a couple of lines in /var/log/boot.msg that are of 
relevance as well.  With auto DHCP, the message says "DHCP no IP address 
yet... backgrounding". When set to static IP, the boot.msg lists eth0 
with the correct IP address and subnet mask and that is it.

I don't want to confuse the issue as I am using SuSE 8.1 at this time 
however, I think it is also worth noting that with Debian 3 rev. 1 
installed, the output of # /sbin/ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.111 was:

 eth0 Media Link Off.

The result of "$ ping 216.239.57.100" was:

Network is unreachable

I understand if you don't want to help me with my own personal 
configuration problems, but it would be nice to know if there is a bug 
in the driver or if my configuration is unsupported.

Cheers,

Brian Durant

Re: Newbie with SiS 900 NIC driver, SuSE 8.1 and Fujitsu-Siemens Celvin EasyPC.

[Martin Schlemmer]

On Sat, 2003-03-15 at 10:31, Brian Durant wrote:
> Please personally CC the answers/comments posted to the list in response 
> to my posting, as I am not a list member. I have tried getting the SiS 
> 900 driver to run on SuSE 7.3, (and now) 8.1, Mandrake 8, 8.1, 9, Debian 
> 3 rev.1 as well as running the latest Knoppix, none of which has been 
> successful. Being a newbie and having only an interest in this one issue 
> that I have never been able to resolve, I really don't belong on the 
> list either. However, I believe that there is either a bug in the driver 
> or my configuration is not supported. Either way, I would like to get 
> the issue cleared up.
> 
> Anyway, to the issue at hand. There is a Fujitsu-Siemens Celvin EasyPC 
> connected to my home WAN/LAN that I have been trying to get to work with 
> the SiS 900 driver. The box has a SiS 900 NIC built into a Biostar 
> motherboard and uses an Award BIOS. The WAN/LAN consists of 4 computers 
> connected to a LinkSys router and a 3 Com cable modem. All other 
> computers are able to connect to the Internet through auto DHCP, 
> including one that is a dual boot Win2k Pro and SuSE 8.1 box. The Celvin 
> is neither able to connect through auto DHCP or with a static IP 
> address. I have checked the physical connection using a USB to Ethernet 
> adapter and Knoppix, so I know the problem doesn't lie there. The SiS 
> 900 NIC itself, works fine under Win 98 SE. This seems to me to rule out 
> a number of things. Using SuSE 8.1, I have tried:
> 

This box I have at work is an Asus CUSI-M with sis900 NIC.  Works
just dandy.

There are no real caveats I know of, so maybe just include relevant
info, like full dmesg, lspci, kernel version. output of ifconfig, etc.

Here is mine .. maybe you spot something.  Also, might try a bios update
...

----------------- relevant dmesg -------------------------
sis900.c: v1.08.06 9/24/2002
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:01.1
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:05.0
eth0: SiS 900 Internal MII PHY transceiver found at address 1.
eth0: Using transceiver found at address 1 as default
eth0: SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet at 0xd400, IRQ 10, 00:e0:18:27:03:cc.
eth0: Media Link On 100mbps full-duplex 
----------------------------------------------------------

----------------------------------------------------------
workshop module-init-tools-0.9.10 # lsmod | grep sis
sis                    47904   1 
sis900                 12236   1 
workshop module-init-tools-0.9.10 # lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 630 Host (rev 21)
00:00.1 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev
d0)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 85C503/5513
00:01.1 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900
10/100 Ethernet (rev 83)
00:01.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 7001 (rev 07)
00:01.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 7001 (rev 07)
00:02.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5591/5592 AGP
00:05.0 Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738 (rev
10)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]
SiS630 GUI Accelerator+3D (rev 21)
workshop module-init-tools-0.9.10 # ifconfig eth0
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:E0:18:27:03:CC  
          inet addr:10.0.4.50  Bcast:10.0.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:159732 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:137561 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 
          RX bytes:74381620 (70.9 Mb)  TX bytes:23243550 (22.1 Mb)
          Interrupt:10 Base address:0xd400 

workshop module-init-tools-0.9.10 # uname -a
Linux workshop 2.4.20-win4lin-r1 #2 Fri Feb 28 10:51:31 SAST 2003 i686
Celeron (Coppermine) GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
workshop module-init-tools-0.9.10 # 
----------------------------------------------------------


Regards,

-- 
Martin Schlemmer